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If you have the chance, visit. Genuinely surreal place. I love Italy in general but Venice compelled me to write a weird autofiction thing for my book when I was writing it which I just rediscovered but never actually put in the book so:
post Verona a bit of a daze, sure as hell not Shakespeare, but star-crossed enough: the van from the hostel departs, barely makes it to the ferry. Here I am, a confused teenage Tom Ripley, recently eighteen, sailing into the lagoon with all my clothes in a tattered suitcase and a reservation I donโt remember making. I sit above a canal, and I fall in love once again as the water laps at my trainers. The old glassworker indulges my thoughts as the kiln nearly sears my eyebrows off. I dance with visiting English students in a public square and lie about how old I am. I spend much of my time at a restaurant a few blocks from the apartment I stay at petting a cat which I never see again, people watching fellow tourists while acting in denial. Later, I enjoy Italian pop music with someone I share my cigarettes with in a Paris rock club three years later. I look forward to the future.
post Verona a bit of a daze, sure as hell not Shakespeare, but star-crossed enough: the van from the hostel departs, barely makes it to the ferry. Here I am, a confused teenage Tom Ripley, recently eighteen, sailing into the lagoon with all my clothes in a tattered suitcase and a reservation I donโt remember making. I sit above a canal, and I fall in love once again as the water laps at my trainers. The old glassworker indulges my thoughts as the kiln nearly sears my eyebrows off. I dance with visiting English students in a public square and lie about how old I am. I spend much of my time at a restaurant a few blocks from the apartment I stay at petting a cat which I never see again, people watching fellow tourists while acting in denial. Later, I enjoy Italian pop music with someone I share my cigarettes with in a Paris rock club three years later. I look forward to the future.
Mar 1, 2024
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The characters and the settings are so vividly described and have stuck with me for years, like I forget they were fake and not things that I really experienced.
Jul 28, 2024
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hits different then the book and the movie in such a way you just want it more and more. Leo and Amika gorgeous and talented queens, writing is pretty good and feels more current even though itโs set decades ago. Big shout out to all the boroughs Iโve lived in London also making a appearance and reminding what I miss so much being back in the states ๐ซก ๐ฌ๐ง โค๏ธ out to E17 gang
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๐Currently traumatizing myself by also casting the movie in my head and let me tell you, Toni Collete, that you will not be snubbed again come Oscar season.
(Full review eventually. Maybe not. It's really good and I'm on page 68. Read it.)
(Full review eventually. Maybe not. It's really good and I'm on page 68. Read it.)
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so much to talk about, the sunglasses, the scarf, the fresh baguette and coffee, the always lovely cafe setting. I think this is the most swag ever captured on camera I aspire to be at this level
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๐ตthe greatest love song of the 21st century??? waitโฆ. They donโt love you like I love you
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