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Seemingly incidental moments and encounters in my early time in Crotona, lead to conversations, experiences, events, and meetings, which otherwise would not have happened at all. And because they were possible through an attractive, intelligent, educated woman, here, “available” at least enough for conversation and exchange, made all the experiences that more inwardly – if unspokenly – a pleasure.

So far during my travels, I have had three special and enjoyed meetings and interesting periods with women I met by chance. I believe our friendly time together, and with two of them there was not even much if any of a subtle is completely unspoken “physical attractelement… I believe I have three new friends from this trip.

Palermo seems to be like Cairo plus plus

Do you like churches in fact, say that our life outside the church is worthless, St. Louis,

Once again. No one in the world has any idea where I am except me. Here are the north east side of no Pellegrini overlooking Palermo bay.

On the train, the new train, from Messina to Palermo… Eventually, a nice looking man, intelligent, sat across from me. He put a book on the table… an Italian translation of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. In spite of that after about 15 minutes I spoke to him and we chatted about our lives a bit. He was visibly shocked to learn that I was retired at 70. When I queried him, he suggested I might be 60. And when it came out that I had lived in Russia for 21 years, teaching English and working as an editor… Well, he said you seem to have lived an unusual and interesting life. The stranger knows me most more than most of my “friends”.

I suppose their “under lives” are little secret from neighbors, so why should their “underwear” be?

Essentially it is irrelevant, and surely has in the main for centuries been, that Pythagoras founded his school here. He would certainly be, were he to come today, no more welcomed here than he was in Samos, from which he needed to escape two millennia ago. Still, I needed to travel: to Samos with its legendary caves of Pythagoras,, and now finally to find his nonexistent remains here in Crotone.

Most to live in history, but unconsciously so. As it being carried along by it. Rare is someone who is inside and yet outside it as it were trying to be above it.

The kind of dress I just don’t think anybody would buy. This woman was going to a wedding, just up the hill in a church near my hostel

Passed by Paestrum, but could not see it.

Seems to be a physical woman. But no one has lips like those. Eye lashes very thick. Breasts too even, “buxomy” and displayed to be “natural”?

When the Speaker of the US House of Representatives is a person of such low motivations…

“Rome” is much greater than Rome. Even in size.

Six hours by train, and I am in a completely different area of Italy, and when I communicate with my host in Naples, these days so easily, I wonder can I not be a different and better and deeper person hear from him and left that has behind?

I haven’t been in Crotone perhaps three hours, and I’m already starting to recognize people on the streets! Funny, but dreadful.

As is not unusual when I travel, I have not eaten in quite a while. In this case for about 12 hours. I lose weight when I travel, and I like it. I feel leener, and look better. But in this case, I wanted to keep my mind pression alert while I was traveling from Naples to quit home, so I did not eat. And then I searched around for a couple of hours for a place to eat, and finally in desperation, simply walk into this place. I’m having wine and a tuna burger.

I have noticed three or four men whose appearance is more than less repeated. Of course they can be distinguished, but not by first glance like mine. However, they essentially have the same body size, haircut, general appearance and dress, physiognomy.

In Rome within easy walking distance I had places I could go to be alone to think , without being continuously, seeing or confronting tourists. You’re in the center of Naples I have not found a place of even remotely resembles that.

Naples has a centuries-long tradition of music and instrument craftsmanship. Listening to lute music and singing in the Port ‘ Alba passageway the past couple of nights would seem to me to justify luticide..

Two dog owners are walking their dogs on the sidewalk… One a man of perhaps 45, the girl wearing headphones, probably 15. The dogs check each other out completely, the owners ignore each other without even looking.

Very few recognize the body language with which they speak.

And soon the pretty much global hand gesture of writing the bill for a meal, will soon be replaced by a tap gesture for the tap charge cards!

Collective world-views, life-views, and experience, fully individualized by our time. Eg Facebook stories.

And naturally they (Pompeins) did not know that they lived in “79 AD” In (teir reality they of course didn’t.

No, I am inclined like you told to leave Rome behind and relax and Naples

A little woman in a small Greek café was more than a little too greedy. And contrary to my words upon entering, I will never return there Extra feta and does not turn a two €10 salad into a €26 salad.

Not Rome, not Naples, not even Italy itself, will assuage Steppenwolf’s solitude.

Goethe mentioned how the people live on the streets, their front doors opening onto the street and living inside an out — being able to look in and see their homes, their lives. Still true.

Naples seems more human than Rome.

Mein Lebensweg ist einzigartig und ehrlich gesagt „edel“. Warum kann ich nicht eher auf eine Beziehung warten, als ihre Abwesenheit ertragen?

That would Goethe experienced is somewhat similar today it is not surprising, considering that most people live in streams of social consciousness and traditions which take radical change for more than a generation to alter the direction of.

Goethe in Naples in 1787 essentially said “they just live”. I catch this movement and attitude. Though it is no more enough for me than it was for him.