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The Iversons -- you know, the Canadians in the big apartment next door -- well,
most of the last half hour I spent sipping brandy with them (which is what I was
doing before I sat down here & logged on), well anyway, the Iversons kept
chattering about how ordinary dumb-shit "citizens" let their children play in
fallout in Nevada & Utah during atomic testing there -- & called it "snow."

What a circus! You should see the crowds lining both sides of the Ponte Vespucci
& packed along the Lungarno Vespucci & the street on the other side of the Arno
(the name of which I forget)! There must be a dozen thick on either side. &
they've got carabinieri down there, threatening people with stun-guns, to keep
them up on the sidewalk. & needless to say the carabinieri, having to answer to
government officials, are to a person dressed in full contamination-avoidance
suits, including respirators!

Apologies for my idiocy, Nick, but I've just realized that I haven't told you
that it's only snowing OVER THE ARNO. (What a lousy reporter I'd make! I can
just hear you telling me what an airhead I am.) Okay, let me try to be more
orderly about this. (But I *have* had quite a bit of brandy with the Iversons. &
that on top of the usual vino with dinner.) 1) According to official reports of
the Ministry of Science broadcast over radio & TV, it started snowing on the
Arno at approximately 2030. 2) I heard a lot of yelling & screaming at around
2145. (At which time I was just finishing my meal of tortellini in red sauce,
bread, salad & vino.) 3) I went to the window, & saw hordes of people descending
to the banks of the Arno. 4) I rushed over to the Iversons', & watched from
their windows as people lined the bridge (which is, after all, the best vantage
point of all). I noted that though I could see snow falling over the Arno, it
never fell on the bridge itself -- which really, I tell you, is damned freaky.
(& if you think about it, is even freakier than some snow-like substance falling
in this kind of heat.) The "snow" itself LOOKS like real snow, from this
distance -- which is to say that it looks just as it does when you look out a
window in Seattle & watch snow falling by street light. Same thing here, by the
lights of the bridge, by the street lights running along this side of the
embankment, & by the sodium lights that always illuminate the mini-dam below. As
I write I can see fat white flakes pouring down in the lights, with the darkish
sky as backdrop. Plus there are areas where some of the flashing blue police
lights cut rhythmic swathes into the snow, giving it a spooky blue tint. I
suppose only the blasts of megaphone noise, presumably the police issuing
warnings, keeps it from being too eerie. . . . As I said, it's a total circus
out there. But a surreal circus -- because, I suppose, of the backdrop including
the Romanesque rear of Santa Maria del Carmine & the lighted spire of Santo
Spirito distantly thrusting up over all.

Twenty-five minutes later

Just took a quick break -- because the Iversons knocked on my door to let me
know they're saying on television (the Iversons, of course, have a set in their
apartment, & watch it besides) that this weird unidentified "snow" is falling in
other rivers, too. So far it's been reported to be falling in the Tiber, the
Rhine, the Seine, The Thames, & the Nile. The Iversons, in relaying this to me,