Re: h

[roberto <roberto@nomade.worldonline.co.uk>]

on 8/9/01 7:42 pm, Richard Zvonar at zvonar@zvonar.com wrote:

> At 11:08 AM -0700 9/8/01, Mark Sottilaro wrote:
>> Is it my imagination, or are their a lot of Italians on the list?
> 
> Could it have anything to do with Giambattista Vico's theory of cyclic
> history?

It strikes me too, Italian seems to be (numerically) the second-best
represented nationality on this list.
Might it be a consequence of our passionate looping language, where the
sound of words can be legitimately employed to create self-gratifying
cycles...?
Or Macchiavelli's inheritance of looped diagonal strategies?
Or a sequence of 50 years of the same government changing approximately 60
times re-arranging in a different sequence the same people?
Or the pleasure of watching the Mediterranean waves looping on the shore?
I can think of many reasons, whether any would make sense I'm not sure.
As it happens I am Italian too, and been in the loop for quite a few moons.

Roberto

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