September 22, 2003
In The Bag Again
Teachout has fired another round of In The Bag. You know the rules:
"Time again for "In the Bag," the game that challenges you to tell the truth about your taste. The rules: you can stuff any five works of art into your bag before departing for a desert island, but you have to decide right this second. No dithering—the bad guys are beating on your front door. No posturing—you have to say the first five things that pop into your head, no matter how silly they may sound. What do you put in the bag?"
BOOK (FICTION): Italo Calvino's Baron in the Trees
BOOK (NONFICTION): A Traveller In Rome (cannot remember the author's name)
PAINTING: Birth of Venus, Boticcelli
CD: Paolo Conte's latest one (cannot remember the title)
FILM: Night of the Shooting Stars (Tornatore brothers)
Thank you. I am a semi-literate Italian, who speaks a rural Tuscan dialect. One of the things I must work on is my proper Florentine (and that includes written Italian). I can understand it and read it fine, but when it comes to speaking or writing I use words that I know, and do not realize are peculiar to the hills between Pisa and Lucca.
Posted by: Erik Keilholtz at September 27, 2003 11:15 PMBotticelli, two Ts and one C. Write it out for me ten times, young man.
Posted by: at September 27, 2003 7:54 PM