More conversation with E.K. after long break. Androids dream of electric lawnmowers and brushcutters. Documentary Film Festival in Munich (https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/?lang=en) comments on Jane (Birkin) by Charlotte (Gainsbourg) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6v5-7MKWm8 ; memoir of "Je t'aime... moi non plus" by Serge Gainsbpourg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA).

Memorable phrases: “(Jane and Charlotte) whisper all the time, but say nothing. My impression because I didn't understand the dialogues? I'm not sure."

Lucrezia, wonderful Italian teacher for foreigners, the only one among a thousand who can make spontaneous and intelligent videos. Great empathy, charisma, melancholic streak, despite the smile: remember Romy Schneider and Marilyn Monroe (copyright E.K.). Why not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds8z0JrKiMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mtp_dL2NvM

1 - Conversation meeting with E.B. and J.B. (A.M.D. has friends from Holland). Theme: the poems of A.G.. Useless attempt to identify places in Ancona in his latest collection (apart from the Red Lantern). Note: Ask A.G. to orient us. Take a city excursion to the places in his poems? which ones?. We fall back: let's just find places! E.B. fishes out a poem about "containers" in a dock (will it be Ancona? Rotterdam? Hamburg). Free interpretations of the verse: "Resist the shadow of the sea to find a docking place..." Focus on: "resurrected parallelepiped." Scattered thoughts on "lap"; "pregnant"; "packed"; "garnishing peoples"; "staggering"; "floating convoy"; "baleful life." Rhymes: you defy the wind/ I follow your lead.

First a discussion on language - racism - sexism. Theme: "BIPOC - Black Indigenous Person of Color (whatsapp appendix documentation by E. B. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/it/dizionario/inglese/person-of-color, https://www.thewom.it/lifestyle/trend/bipoc-significato ). Remember a presentation by Vera Gheno in Cupramontana on June 6. Please don't miss: "Feminine singulars. Feminism is in the Words." “Femminili singolari. Il femminismo è nelle parole”

2 - A.2 course - Meeting class with A.B. after weeks of break. 3% dilution of an A.2. adult course. A.B. reworks a lot. " Dramatics" is not his thing; he practices "lateral thinking": he goes where you don't expect, where we don't expect. I have learned over time-but I forget it often-that he doesn't like to have two alternative ways of saying the same thing. "If one works out and it's the most frequent, that's enough for me, otherwise it's double effort for nothing: I end up remembering neither one nor the other." Ex: "Ieri ho preso l'ombrello perché pioveva"; "Ieri pioveva, perciò ho preso l'ombrello" He says to me, "This "perciò" I haven't heard it much around, at least not consciously" I say, "actually you don't hear it much. Easier "it was raining yesterday and I took the umbrella". Do you want to give an example with "therefore"?""OK" (he was in a good mood). The example didn't work. So we let it go. Economy, carry me away...

May 3, 2022

Meeting zoom Conversation - A journey in the productive activities of the Marche region - n.3 - Meet Alice Vitelli - La scarpetta di Venere - Casette d’Ete e Sirolo, Le Marche - For the series of Conversation Group meetings, we met Alice Vitelli, owner with her brother Gianluca, of the company "La scarpetta di Venere". (Remember l’Amica geniale, di elena Ferrante - copyright Elke Busch)

She herself has defined hers as "an enterprise" and we understood it well when we discovered the determination and courage with which Alice and her brother have taken over the family business and completely changed that model to make it a jewel of craftsmanship and innovation. With the pride of their roots in the Marche region. Visit https://scarpettadivenere.it @lascarpettadivenere