Where leaves rhyme with bananas and tables become donkeys
If you know what you want, you are half way to attaining it
‘Art is the supreme game which the will plays with itself.’ S.Sontag
The sound of covering pan lids, unstacked plates and the weighted bell, all clear-aired reminders that the city is on the move again.
There are two Roman words: sfizio meaning a “whim”, or literally something that you don’t really need. But it has come to mean a delicious thing, usually fried in oil, that you absolutely must eat. The second is sargarozzare, which is defined as “to consume or throw back with joy, and with no intention of stopping.”
Rachel Roddy Tales from an Italian Kitchen
‘Well, what Tony should have been thinking, I guess, and what we should all be thinking - although we can’t live that way - is that life is really short. And there are good times in it and there are bad times in it. And that we don’t know why we are here, but we do know that 20 miles up it’s freezing cold, it’s a freezing cold universe, and here we have this thing called love, which is our only defence, really, against all that cold, and that’s a very brief interval and that, when it’s over, I think you’re probably always blindsided by it.’
David Chase on the final episode of the Sopranos