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Martin J. Walker wrote: >What?!!! Erminia not real!!! As soon dispute that the moon is green, as that >Erminia enjoys her rich Dasein on this planet of perdition. I've just been >reading her/your mystic contributions (still catching up on last week's >mail) and savouring the bees penetrating cabbages which turn up (rather than >ip) in closest proximity to concubines in the next efflorescence of your/her >luminous verdure. (I've still got Beatrice Alighieri in an encrypted file, >divina poetessa!) Nobody's realer than her/you... Thank you Martin. >Is anyone interested in an interim report from Genoa? My partner's daughter >and her partner, two lurkers on this list, are holed up in the media centre >there to report on the conference happenings, as it were, and the degree of >furious police state activity seems to be unparalleled for a (wait for it) >Western democracy (though I'm willing to be corrected on that. Nothing like >knowing where you slip.) I am interested. I would really be pleased to hear news from the Genova's borders. NB> Police in Italy is a totally post-fascist institution, and people seem to enjoy its rigour, or else see the point of it. In my memories, only during students strikes and protests in the Seventies (when my older brother Israele was attending High School) their conduct was violently opposed and contested. But this went to the expenses of the protesters which were all badly jailed and submitted to trials and for ever included in black lists. Matter of fact, police, in Italy, can still stop you in the street and take you to prison for 24 hours if one, after midnight, is caught walking in the street with no documents of identifications (the so called "fermo di polizia"). So, if you are planning to travel to Italy, please, remember to bring with you your documents, keep the notion in mind that policemen hold guns and do not be surprised if while driving , at any street turn, "carabinieri" will approach you pointing at your face machine-guns. It is the normal procedure of asking your driving licence. Make sure you do not irritate them and do not say anything that might mildly sound offensive, since they would arrest you for "Oltraggio e resistenza al pubblico ufficiale". Ah, another essential detail: foreigner visitors of the gentile sex will notice how good looking these policemen indeed are: tall and strong, with hairs slightly long on the neck, black sun glasses, black boots up to the knees, tight blue trousers, and even tighter blue shirts open down on the chest, which certainly will be hairy, sun tanned and perfectly structured. These policemen are in fact chosen not at all for their intelligence, which they proverbially lack, but for how good they look in the State uniform. (Ciao Flynn: thank you for mentioning our meeting. I am sorry it was so chaotic that day of my party, but next time we will arrange for a quiter occasion , with less poeple and less no new born babies). Erminia