Showing posts with label Edwardian Fops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edwardian Fops. Show all posts

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Dear Lord, I'm Turning Into ...

... one of those ex-pat English types living in Italy so beloved of Edwardian novelists. Yes, I bought a Borsalino! Next thing you know I'll be sitting on the piazza in the hot sun in my rumpled, slightly soiled, linen suit, ogling the tanned fishermen, my ivory tipped cane clutched in one gnarled fist and my afternoon aperitivo in the other.

24 luglio - San Charbel Makhlouf