I would like to be told that someone had at least read the fragment I published yesterday. I realize that the title did not sound too exciting, but I would not have published it if I didn't think it was fun.
Actually, if you had asked me whether there was a real-life counterpart to the opposition I drew up between settled interests and new industries such as railways, there is one. According to widespread and universally believed rumour in Rome, the factthat no railway or underground line reaches Ciampino international airport is due to constant pressure on politicians by the local taxi drivers.
Thank you for the correction. What particularily upsets me is that I had gotten this "fact" from a cd series of lectures by a Notre Dame professor on the Papacy.
I hope this reaches you. I have now discovered that a previous Pope, Gregory XVI, did in fact refuse the idea of a railway system on the grounds that it would have been a disruptive influence on a rural society. But that was entirely theoretical talk; railways only began to seriously spread through Italy after Gregory XVI's death.
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Re: I liked it
Date: 2011-03-12 07:31 pm (UTC)Re: I liked it
Date: 2011-03-13 11:31 pm (UTC)What particularily upsets me is that I had gotten this "fact" from a cd series of lectures by a Notre Dame professor on the Papacy.
Re: I liked it
Date: 2011-11-10 08:52 pm (UTC)