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Rome, Day 20

Two sources of power in Rome

In the greater world today wherein lies any “power” in Rome? Obviously in the Papacy. Obviously not in any passing Italian government. Otherwise, it seems to lie in the mystique of Rome in history.

The main political problem in the USA is not the “political system”– it is the political citizens.

Don’t the Modern Roman means…
…ruin the Romantic Roman ends?
Golfis. OK I suppose, it’s the golfers I don’t much like.

How many grand tourists were changed by their Italian journies, and how many returned the same, save for momentos? Bildung. Misbildung. Unbildung.

Thomas Cole aqueducts outside Rome

I People with thoughts and insights

In other words: don’t stop here.
Thomas Cole Colosseum

What was it they painted that we needed, and want, and why. An assuagement of death?

Did these ants but know, would they be proud of their predecessors as perhaps plants on the Mount of Olives?

Most Romans do not live in “Rome”

Periods of escaping our time. Our world.