During the end of October I spent one week in US - before Connecticut and then NY -
One early morning, 'couse jetlag akaking me at 4/5 am, I spent few hours on internet just exploring the web in US and... trying to realize what it says about my town, Siena.
On web site WorldHum I found an interview with Billy Collins and an article of Sara Schmelling
Billy Collins in an interviw about his book "The Trouble with Poetry" said...."For me a place really takes over when I’m in that place and I am freed of any desire to go anywhere, and I can kind of imagine sitting in that place forever. That hasn’t happened very often. It happened in Siena, Italy. I was sitting in the campo. It just seemed like this could be the center of the universe."Another surprise was Sarah Schmelling's article "Ciao Bella" about her first trip to Siena
..."I went to Siena for a few good reasons. I left Chicago for a million more"and "I picked Italy for its art, and Siena was full of it. It was just so old. The town hall was built in the 12th century, and all the other buildings weren’t much younger. Streets arched over each other in narrow brick streams, and a thick high wall circled the town as if the whole thing had been thrown like a discus into the Tuscan hills. The Duomo was made of ancient striped marble, and St. Catherine’s skull was in a church named for her, where it’s been for 600 years. Everything was medieval and preserved, and nothing was like where I came from."......."Days before I went home, I knew I’d be ready for it. There were people to get back to, and I knew who they were. People, in general, could be terrible and wonderful. Sad that I had to go to Italy to realize that. Amazing that I could"
by Gaia
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