{"id":336,"date":"2004-11-21T05:12:35","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T13:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=336"},"modified":"2004-11-21T05:12:35","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T13:12:35","slug":"old-world-my-translator-canals-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/21\/old-world-my-translator-canals-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Old World, My Translator, Canals, Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the morning winter sun, everything's black and white, like an Italian Realism movie from the Fifties.<\/p>\n

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I spent the day with my Italian translator Daniele Brolli, he translated about six of my novels, including the Ware series. Daniele translates my SF word “uvvy” as “poppyno.” He's a good guy, a writer himself, journalism and novels, also scripts for Topolino (Mickey Mouse) comics. This picture was taken on Via Dante, crowded with Sunday strollers. Everyone out on the street today.<\/p>\n

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I had read in the guidebook that the Navigli (canal) district is cute and trendy and wanted Daniele to go there with me.<\/p>\n

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Whoops. The canals have been drained for cleaning, so it's not too scenic, also people mainly only go there at night. Daniele was maybe too polite to tell me this before I insisted on going there. So we cranked up on a couple of cups of tea and headed back into town.<\/p>\n

Later he bought me a great dinner at a restaurant called da Ilia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Italian web addresses, they announce one in the tram every now and then over the speaker, and the initial part of the address comes out like “voo-voo-voo” — I'd been wondering why they were making that sound.<\/p>\n

Daniele told me that zucca means “yam”, which figures, as I had zucca risotto last night and it had yellow cubes in it, this was at another good place called Le 5 Terre<\/a>. Eating in Italy is where it's at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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