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Jun 17, 2007 journal

Crema notes

Crema

Palace Hotel hidden behind the supermarket. New owners at the legendary gelateria, including fidenza Sharon from Barbados. Promenading in town on Saturday night. Loud men and a buffet breakfast in the Beat Café on Sunday morning. A football match? But the talk seems to turn on the mass bike ride in town today. And if I see any more muscular young men in tight, bright Spandex, perhaps I’ll turn gay. At least, more than cheerful.

And a curious (local?) typesetting practice: setting paragraphs closed and unindented, so they can be individuated only on the right, and not always. Spotted in Maurizio’s surgical textbook, and on a restaurant menu. Odd – style over function?

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