Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr

Author:Anthony Doerr [Doerr, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2007-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

It rains, the sun comes out. Five minutes later, hail is bouncing off the street. This morning the Alban Hills were slate blue and velvety. At noon they were shining and white. Now they are heavy and black, terrible, apocalyptic.

Lorenzo crouches in his gatekeeper’s lodge, heater blowing, a pile of mail in his lap. “This weather is called monkey weather,” he tells us. Shauna and I cross the gravel of the courtyard, on our way to the corner bar to order spremute, tall glasses of blood-orange juice. We clasp hands. There is thunder. The west, beyond the Vatican, burns inwardly, a thousand shades of gold.

The oranges are from Sicily. The juice tastes like sunlight: low, red, foamy.

We hold our glasses with two hands. We try not to take anything for granted.

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