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When Hermes comes home after stealing Apollo’s cattle, his mother, Maia scolds him over his behaviour. Hermes will have none of it. He explains to her that he doesn’t believe they should go on living obscurely in a cave. He doesn’t believe they should be shunned by
A friend is stuck writing her thesis when, wandering aimlessly through the library, she happens on a carrel where someone had spread out just the article she needed. Antonio Stradivari, walking in Venice one day, comes upon a pile of broken, waterlogged oars, out of which he makes some of
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s collection of stories, sketches and scripts of Rome is a stark, dialectical reminder of a long-forgotten city. A postwar city, a city of dust and concrete, a city of wounds. Pasolini’s writings cover Rome and Italy emerging into the world from 1950 to 1966. From
EXT. LOS ANGELES - GALAXY MOVIE THEATER - NIGHT An American flag appears upside down, rippling in a slight breeze. A black cowboy boot steps in splattering the reflection in a sidewalk puddle. Then steps forward. We hear BILL HICKS’ whiny voice as we move up his black pants, and
It is July 7, 1647. Dawn spills over the Piazza de Mercato in Naples as the fish sellers and vendors gather for the day’s trade. Grain merchants, money lenders, bakers, fruiterers, poets, butchers, vagabonds, jewellers, thieves, scoundrels, acrobats, bandits, travellers, smugglers, spies, assassins. Worshippers head to the Carmelite Santa