Here, then, is the last selection of photos from our Venice trip, once again taken on our tour of the Canal Grande.
Freedom is fragile
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer, as quoted in Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach (eds), Fifty Shades of Feminism
I should have been a writer
There are some truly sad anecdotes in Fifty Shades of Feminism, edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach. Muneeza Shamsie, for instance, in ‘The Words of Women’, reflects on her mother’s fate in Pakistan, noting that, ‘on the last night of her life, she rang my paternal aunt Tazeen and said, “All these years I was turned into a housewife and made useless! I should have been a writer!” Such a self-revelation’, Shamsie comments, ‘at eighty-six, a few hours before dying!’
Impressioni veneziane: Canal Grande again
Some more shots of the Canal Grande, with one last post to come.
Impressioni veneziane: Canal Grande
The Canal Grande: one of the absolute highlights of our trip. So beautiful, clearly among the most amazing things I have ever seen.
Loose ends
‘Systematic theology’ is an oxymoron. There are always loose ends.
Eugene H. Peterson, Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination
Karl Möller 