I must recognize more clearly and accept less reluctantly that what I experience, what I “find” and conclude of and in Rome, are of me, not others.
Watching periodically CNN and MSNBC, i.e. news and mentality from America, I see that the mass goal of life is material wealth and comfort. Family is perhaps less a goal than a fact. Beyond material satisfaction and quantities, perhaps qualities of goods or objects. I see no higher aspirations generally.
Supporters of Donald Trump, especially now, reveal their intelligence.
Many, old medieval buildings and much earth was removed to reveal this structure.
A Southern Gentleman Steppenwolf walked the streets of Rome alone this evening. Trying to be relaxed and indifferent would help to make the evening less depressingly solitary. A regular semi-effective stance.
A photographer selling photos of Paris at his place before Shakespeare and Co. seemed to assume my self characterization artistic or pretentious. I told him, ‘no, it really is a description of me’.
50 to 100 yards off any major tourist path the population drops by 95+%.
If I recall correctly, it has been since the late 1700s that there was a distinction between tourist and traveler.
And do they not follow the set paths in their minds as well as by their feet?
And the feet follow because the minds follow, yoga feet are more obvious
After the adult name md the building, the young girl asks which propaganda?
Clearly about 99.9% of the people who go up the Spanish Steps do not go into the poets’ house.
Must one be old to appreciate Rome?
What place may famous by writers and thinkers is not either or later, ruined by curious, wealthy, shallow, posers
The head waiter made a special effort to speak to me, as I left the categorical… Which I take, is a recognition of at least some intelligent serious face there I miss the tourists
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 