Now, I’m not really one to do this mocking thing, y’know, sort-of Trumpty Dumpty sat on a wall …, but these two pictures did strike me as a bit funny. The one on the left includes Mark Zuckerberg, attending the Donald Trump Inauguration, and the one on the right is another Donald, Donald Sutherland, from the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It’s the colour of the ties more than anything else …
Have a good Sunday.


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Italy: a storia d’amore
No one learns German in order to listen to Wagner – even if I believe they should. Still less do they learn Czech in order to listen to Dvorak. And they should. But many do learn Italian in order to listen to Puccini as he minutely carves out their hearts, or to Verdi, as he smashes them out with his anvil and hammer. It’s a language that also comes in …