TAVOLO PER UNO?
Three billion blogs out here and you stumble into mine. Well I thought I had a good one a couple of days ago but as is the case I had it all written out in my head at around 4 in the morning and when I arose I couldn’t remember quite what my great idea was let alone where the hell I put my socks or perhaps I should give Rand Paul a call ( a fellow moocher) and anyway what does it matter we ain’t saving the world here and we certainly ain’t paying the rent. I get waylaid; distracted, mired in the swampy suck of self-indulgence to borrow a phrase not from Rand the Scamp but this from Professor Simon Schama who has a fine way with words all his own. In any case what had me kicking off the blanket and pulling out the sheets and just giving my poor wife fits -was the thought that this is the best we can do. In a related matter I never thought this “Auto-Blog” would amount too much and even confessing to ulterior efforts to gain a nickel from this fell to ruin as I have once again proved to no one in particular that I am no capitalist but just a poor whore as witness the following:
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There was this idea to sell stuff along with my nutty musings – you know everytime someone clicks and buys or inquires or just browses you get a wee percentage of something just for advertising that something on your site – I tried it with some general plumbing number tying it in to recent NSA concern about “leaks”- get it?- but no
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| The street Via Portico d’Ottavia (Octavia’s Porch street) is still the centre of Jewish life in Rome. Initially built in 146 BCE, it was entirely renovated by Augustus, and dedicated to his sister Octavia. It was a small forum in its own right, with Greek and Latin libraries, halls for music and public meetings, and with precious works of art. Because of its proximity to the river, the area also hosted the fish market. Fish was a most desired food, and fishermen had to pay high rents to the noble families owning the stalls. Nowadays the street is a lively hotchpotch of ancient, medieval and Renaissance architecture.Add caption |
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historical passings and to
my mind’s eye what an old European street is- narrow with old buildings
closing in on you and people moving and doing, walking, eating,-you can
tell I don’t get out much and on this street just a few steps down from
this plaque are a couple of Jewish eateries that I – if ever given the
gift of overseas travel – long to sample.
Sam Enderby @joyfulmoocher 20h
In any case I await on shpilkes for any attention in this matter and in the meanwhile I will probably spend -now- the rest of my afternoon figuring out how to get back to my previous font.
(Later that week)
Dig deeper online or is that click even more and the great Internet Machine will reveal more of itself and the world. I stumbled across “my plaque” on a site titled “trip advisor” or something. Here it is:
And “my” taverna answered my plea for a translation. And with my translation there are now more questions.
Taverna del Ghetto Kosher This is the translation:
Settimio Calò came out of the house where he lived with his wife, Clelia Frascati, and nine children. When he returned there found it empty forever. His loved ones had been raked October 16, 1943 and then deported to Auschwitz along with more than a thousand jews in the name of the racist policy of fascism. None of his family returned. They represent all the families destroyed antisemitic hatred.
December 8- Sam Enderby- Thank you!!Grazie!! SO Mr. Calo survived? And his wife and children all died?
I don’t know why I was so incredulously stupid. The plaque says they NEVER returned! I’ll just chalk it up to the shock of somebody actually taking the time and bother to respond to me and of course the unspeakable sadness of Mr. Calo’s lost – I mean the guy had just gone for cigarettes:
“Settimio Calo, 44, a Jew who had left home early that fateful morning to join a queue at a tobacconists’ shop for scarce cigarettes, returned to find his wife and nine children gone. A married daughter living around the corner had also disappeared. He ran down the street in a mad panic and eventually made his way to the Collegio Militare, a building along the Tiber not far from the Vatican, where the Jews had been taken. Calo threw himself against the doors but an Italian guard took him by the arm and said, “Are you crazy? Get out of here. Don’t you know they’ll grab you too if they see you?” Calo kept pushing but the guard threw him out. “I walked a little, sat on the ground and began to cry, ” he said.
The Jews taken to the Collegio Militare passed St. Peter’s Square, shouting to Pope Pius XII to save them..” - from Mussolini-The Last 600 Days of Il Duce by Ray Moseley (Taylor Trade, 2004)
Settimio Calò came out of the house where he lived with his wife, Clelia Frascati, and nine children. When he returned there found it empty forever. His loved ones had been raked October 16, 1943 and then deported to Auschwitz along with more than a thousand jews in the name of the racist policy of fascism. None of his family returned. They represent all the families destroyed antisemitic hatred.
December 8- Sam Enderby- Thank you!!Grazie!! SO Mr. Calo survived? And his wife and children all died?
I don’t know why I was so incredulously stupid. The plaque says they NEVER returned! I’ll just chalk it up to the shock of somebody actually taking the time and bother to respond to me and of course the unspeakable sadness of Mr. Calo’s lost – I mean the guy had just gone for cigarettes:
“Settimio Calo, 44, a Jew who had left home early that fateful morning to join a queue at a tobacconists’ shop for scarce cigarettes, returned to find his wife and nine children gone. A married daughter living around the corner had also disappeared. He ran down the street in a mad panic and eventually made his way to the Collegio Militare, a building along the Tiber not far from the Vatican, where the Jews had been taken. Calo threw himself against the doors but an Italian guard took him by the arm and said, “Are you crazy? Get out of here. Don’t you know they’ll grab you too if they see you?” Calo kept pushing but the guard threw him out. “I walked a little, sat on the ground and began to cry, ” he said.
The Jews taken to the Collegio Militare passed St. Peter’s Square, shouting to Pope Pius XII to save them..” - from Mussolini-The Last 600 Days of Il Duce by Ray Moseley (Taylor Trade, 2004)
