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Why Palermo, a friend asked when I was making plans.  To gather the last strands of summer sun, like harvesters with a basket, I said, or something such.  Everything sings in the sun.  Instead, there has been some sun and much storm. The stone streets gleam slick and gray between the medieval buildings; the streets with arms extending out like a wet octopus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I might have said more interesting things: I love the mash-up of cultures, the never-finished project of culture building.\u00a0 When I was 21 and dizzy with discovery, I said this was the first Arab country I\u2019d been in.\u00a0 Was it the pressure of colors \u2014 greens, pinks of fish, oranges, figs, the persimmon I ate everyday with fresh ricotta and semolina bread on a park bench?\u00a0 Even locals here still talk of their Arab city \u2014 the gardens made urban market, sumptuous and overflowing in crowded alleys with fruits, fish, vegetables.\u00a0 It’s a vision of possibility – a world of overflowing excess – that exists, and exists, no less, in the shadow of crumbling buildings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The streams of cultivaters \u2014 Carthinigians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Arab, Normans, Italians, Cosa Nostra – are all still felt. Along with palm and orange trees, cats, graffiti, conversation, cars, garbage. \u00a0This fertile energy threatens to overflow at all moments, is always almost too much, pulls back with its own logic.\u00a0 To know a thing, you put yourself in the middle. That\u2019s the beauty of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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