I haven’t been truly surprised in a long time, but this news…wow!
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. – L.P. Hartley, The Go-Betweens.
Accurate. And sometimes a foreign country wants to be the past. Somewhere between a faded photo of Benito Mussolini’s inverted corpse and an ill-received performance by the Stormtroopers of Death at the Teatro alla Scala lies this inexplicable decision to return Italy to its nationalistic roots.
Reminds me of somewhere else.