We arrived in Rome last Monday. I took a shower in the evening and used the shampoo that I found in the bathroom. Some of it got into my right eye and it became red!
Vile stuff…
My eye has been quite sore and so I haven’t done as much here in Rome as I had planned. But I’m recovering.
The trouble has also been the heat. There is no point in going out until in the late afternoon. By then, some things, such as the Colosseum, are closed. The Colosseum closes at six, which is way too early.
But Rome is an amazing city! Ruins of temples etc. all around.
I was less impressed by the Vatican. The whole of the Catholic Church just irritates me. However the Vatican may be beautiful, I dislike what it stands for. Rome is forever trying to dominate the world. First by force, then by religion.
In a sense, we still have an emperor here. His name is Benedict XVI.
As Philip K. Dick would have it: The Empire never ended. It merely changed its face.
(Dick’s theory was actually that an enormous false memory had been inserted into mankind. He maintained that we have been brainwashed by the Roman Empire to live in a false world. What we perceive as reality is not real - neither the present, nor the last 2000 years. See Dick’s VALIS).
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