Chocolate Square: meeting without getting together
"Ni videmu a patch!"
"Hun?"
"Before the Spaniards!"
How many times have we said or heard?
Yes, because for us, as the ancient Greeks, the 'ἀγορά is the meeting place par excellence.
For the Hellenes, the square was the site of the market, economic and religious center, there arose public buildings, offices, temples and altars, both the place where you do most of the political, the debate and discussion of all points of view and interests.
So many similarities with what it represents for us our historic Piazza Umberto I.
On Monday, the traditional market stalls and color that brighten up a bit 'that white prevalent one source to another, the two churches of Latin and Byzantine rite who ever looked into his eyes, the Town Hall and the octagonal fountain gay he drank people from anywhere in the world and whose jets are immortalized by many photographers who love the play of light that are created by the impact of droplets with the sun's rays; debate, discussion ... well, maybe a bit here 'this is where things change ... I would rather gloss, blame, frustration, gossip. And perhaps
shouted to oppose this to the Mad Giancaldo?
"The square's mine! The square's mine! It's midnight, I have to close the square! The square is my picciotti not joking! The square's mine! The square's mine! "
Maybe he was tired of seeing all those people and just wanted godesi peace and silence of this surreal place, halfway between the Western and Sicily, as well as for has called Marco Amenta.
not ashamed to cry out and tell people what was annoyed by the constant presence. Actually did not ask anything so impractical and could not really be so crazy as people think.
"A madman! is something horrible, "What are you, you, reader? In which category do you deploy? In those fools or that fools? If you got a choice, your vanity would certainly prefer the latter condition. " Gustave Flaubert
Epiphany Earley
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