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Florence by night

From:     tal I 
Category: Life
Date:     17 July 2007
Time:     04:41 AM

Review:

As you enter Florence in the rattling cab with the driver perfuming the night air with a rustic meal on 
his breath, the warmth of 20 degrees at 2am and a bus to catch, the party is ending or beginning and 
couples in tight clothes are getting friendly on the way home/out. The toll has been paid, and you enter 
the outskirts,  each street is dotted with single women wearing the usual oversexed outfits, something 
like what men want are to blame for, the reduction to legs and breast and ass and a slim figure, from 
a distance the bumps and thick make up and heroin holes and sadness can't be seen. I think of 
friends and novelists who would love all this. At this speed the statues that line the streets look no 
different from the women in the partying, groping couples, just that they are waiting alone usually.


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