The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History With Jigsaws by Margaret Drabble

Author:Margaret Drabble [Drabble, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Biography, History
ISBN: 0547386095
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2009-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Edmund Spenser translated these lines, but I've never been able to commit his version to memory. It runs:

My sad desires, rest therefore moderate:

For if that time make ende of things so sure,

It als will end the paine, which I endure.

But time doesn't finish either, ever.

I had some grand and solemn moments in Rome aged seventeen, but I also had some trivial ones. Early one morning, after a night spent for some reason on the Stazione Termini, my friend (my friend of the melanzana parmigiana) and I tried to buy a ham sandwich at dawn in an espresso bar. The chap kept barking at us 'Crudo o cotto?' rather as the waiter in the Kenilworth had reiterated 'Black or white?' We weren't stupid, we knew what both these Italian words meant, but we couldn't imagine why he was using them. It seemed a very Lévi-Strauss kind of question. Who on earth would want raw ham, at six o'clock in the morning? Raw ham, in a sandwich!

I know better now.

Rome is an education.

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