Italy Roundup
Here are some more personal photos from Italy. Some guerilla photography, pigeons, and mountains rising up out of the sea. I became obsessed with taking pictures of angry old Italian people. Rita read four books on the trip, I only read one. Catcher in the Rye. Somehow I had skipped it during my first 28 years. I wasn’t too crazy about it overall (it kind of bored me, yeah I said it), but I could really appreciate the great quotes from it. Hopefully you can read these while all the photos are loading.
Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them — if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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What I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes. What I think is, you’re supposed to leave somebody alone if he’s at least being interesting and he’s getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.
