This was a delightful read! It brought me back to a layover I had for a few hours in Verona. I was there from 9pm to 11pm and had just rained and the whole place felt completely surreal with old stone and glistening cobblestone streets.
As a massive fan of Romeo and Juliet, I was delighted to see the "actual" balcony. I find the interplay between fiction and reality fascinating. It's wonderful to me that the stories we tell to better make sense of the human experience can end up impacting tangible places, scientific advancements, and cultural shifts. And I really appreciated your perspective on all of this as a historian!
What a magical experience! I love cities at night and in the rain so this sounds like an amazing combination.
I'm increasingly sure that, as humans, stories are the backbone of everything we think and do. Fact and fiction are just different qualities that mean stories can have different uses, but the lines are always blurred. Like you, I love that things can become real through the way people react to them or respnd to the world because of them. Thank you so much for sharing your encounter with Verona!
This was a delightful read! It brought me back to a layover I had for a few hours in Verona. I was there from 9pm to 11pm and had just rained and the whole place felt completely surreal with old stone and glistening cobblestone streets.
As a massive fan of Romeo and Juliet, I was delighted to see the "actual" balcony. I find the interplay between fiction and reality fascinating. It's wonderful to me that the stories we tell to better make sense of the human experience can end up impacting tangible places, scientific advancements, and cultural shifts. And I really appreciated your perspective on all of this as a historian!
What a magical experience! I love cities at night and in the rain so this sounds like an amazing combination.
I'm increasingly sure that, as humans, stories are the backbone of everything we think and do. Fact and fiction are just different qualities that mean stories can have different uses, but the lines are always blurred. Like you, I love that things can become real through the way people react to them or respnd to the world because of them. Thank you so much for sharing your encounter with Verona!