2007/05/14 Turin
Kid
Kidney?
After a public event at the Turin Book Fair my Italian publisher took me out for dinner — a fairly chaotic dinner where I was taught the other meaning of the word “kid.”
Usually my Italian is enough to read the menu, but there was one word I wasn’t sure of so I asked my publisher. He said: “Oh, that’s kid”.
“Kidney you mean?” I asked.
“No,” he said. “Kid. A young goat. A kid.”
We waited two hours for the kid, but what’s two hours when you can lose your sanity in a second?
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There was a good program on Arte about eating fried bugs and caterpillars in Bangkok. The people there ask forgiveness to the spirits for killing those insects. Maybe that feeling of guilt and showing respect is the only way to prevent insanity, I think (I am only a moderate vegetarian).
Waiting is horrible. I'd lose my sanity when waiting.
Turin
I would like to know the restaurant in Turin.I often visit that city. Just to go there and have fun. Kitty
dream III
I dreamed there was a typo, you dreamt there was a typo. Both can be true. But thank you anyway. (Sorry, i forgot your name)
scunfo unscof
So scunfo unscof. Maybe you only wanted to tell that you dreamt Arnon's photograph in your passport as well(?).
Sometimes reading your texts is like swallowing the words, which start to twist in my stomach.
Such a theatre we live in.
Jan Thys
MOTHER EARTH I AM SO SORRY
@ Hanne V
If you want to say sorry to Mother Earth, for a very personal reason, you don not have to address to me, you do not need my blessings, please believe me, I am not a Jesus.
Jan Thys
Haha, that was not my intention. I did not mistake for any Jesus in any way.
I understand what you wrote about the ritual you saw.
erratum
I meant: i didn't mistake you for, etc...
Hanne & Jan
Please Hanne & Jan can't you swop telephone numbers or e-mail addresses?
@ Andrea Jansen (if you are the one from Switzerland, then may your beauty rejoice my eyes forever).
Please be careful with connections, some entities are bottomless.
mud wrestling
But after all... after talking far too much... For which i apologize...
I will contact Johannes about the mudwrestlingevent. Because i would love to standing up for peace like that. I may sound naive, but i take things like this very very seriously.
I can do a lot for the event. (except for giving money, but money is of no importance when it comes to peace) What is still needed? Everything?
Please tell me.
And please Andrea, do not insult me, just have a little mudwrestling with me.
Hanne V
I have been studying your comments carefully and I would like to ask you to limit your comments to two times a week, let’s say on Sunday and Wednesday. Could you, Hanne V, please abide by this rule? In other words, two comments a week and not a single comment more, please. Thank you for your cooperation
arnon
i already apologized
thanks for offering limitations.
i will limit myself.
i am very good at that.
I didn't know kid meant kidney in any language, but of course in English it means a small child as well as a goat. And in at least one instance a beautiful woman, as in "Here's looking at you, kid."
Martin
When there is enough noise in a restaurant it is easy to hear kid when kidney was meant.