New Photos, Giardini Margherita
All right, so there’s a load of new media coming around. Here are the new photos from Giardini Margherita. As you can see above, most of them are absolutely preposterous. The giardini is a magical place that is just about as close as one can get to the Bowdoin Quad during Ivies—well, actually, it’s kind of like Ivies every day in the Giardini, when the weather is nice. There are jugglers, lots of soccer, people sunbathing in speedos (which is an aspect that is thankfully absent from Bowdoin events), among other absolute chaos.
As the crunch for exams begins, there are, naturally, more posts and things. Anyway, there is one passage from a book on the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco that I would like to include an excerpt of. It reads as follows (just about):
“Regardless of the claims in early biographies, obstinate to describe him as a great scholar and an assiduous reader, Franco (especially after he became Head of State) did not pass his free time reading novels or studying texts about how to guide the State, but he loved to play cards, dominoes, tennis, and golf; he passed entire weeks fishing, hunting and—particularly after 1956—sitting in front of the television for hours, mostly during transmissions of soccer matches. Saturday or Sunday afternoon (when he was not out hunting or fishing) he watched films in a private theatre in his residence in El Pardo, preferibly Western films. Sundays, he also played quinielas, a lottery in which he was very lucky, so much that in 1967 he won the first prize, equal to one million pesetas.”
Well, that took a lot of steam but I think it was worthwhile. I enjoyed the above quite a bit. And I consider it’s reiteration here a form of studying. Good work, Darren.
More to come.
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