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     Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.3 |
Hello everybody! I am Giancarlo from Rome, Italy. I've been following this Forum for years and now here I am to partake of the feast! Please, forgive my sometimes stammering English. Yes, I am a Roman but not wearing any of those movie robes and sandals, alas, but I'd be in favour of reviving gladiatorial combat in the Arena as in the good old days, maybe pitching rivalling fans of horror to slash at each other by word or sword. Well, I am happy to be here among all of you. Thank you all for your hospitality. Yours, Giancarlo | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.178.201 |
Welcome, Giancarlo! Enjoy the (dark) feast! | ||
| Simon_b (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Welcome aboard, Giancarlo! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Howdy! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Ciao, Giancarlo. Welcome aboard. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
>>>but I'd be in favour of reviving gladiatorial combat in the Arena as in the good old days, maybe pitching rivalling fans of horror to slash at each other by word or sword. You're in the right place.  | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.192.189 |
Just remember - the mouse is mightier than the sword around here... ;-) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.34.159 |
Welcome Giancarlo! Spent some happy holidays in Italy. One here! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoleto Stayed in a converted convent in that area for two weeks. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
It wasn't converted until she left. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.197.246 |
I've never been to Rome, but I spent a couple of weeks in the north of Italy (we drove through the Dolomites and camped there before moving on to Venice) in my teens, and will never forget it. I'd love to go back some day, and explore more of the country. | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.97.93.216 |
Welcome aboard, Giancarlo. When it comes time for me to step into the arena, I favour a trident/short sword combo. I also wield a mean semicolon... | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.74.221.2 |
Hej Giancarlo, welcome! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.34.159 |
Yes but converted from what to what? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Dunno, but I'll bet you'r writing a story about it.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
From a place of purity and sanctity to a...pub.  | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.34.159 |
Might write one about you Zeddy in a convent in Italy! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Even the chickens will lose their maidenhood. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.34.159 |
How did you know they had chickens? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
You mean they had nun? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Welcome, Giancarlo! I loved Rome both times I was there. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.88.85 |
Welcome, Giancarlo! | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
Welcome to the asylum | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 192.26.212.72 |
Alan, I'd be afraid to step in the arena lest I wind up with a mean semi-colon. | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 192.26.212.72 |
...pitching rivalling fans of horror to slash at each other by word or sword. Can we pit the fans of slash against each other instead? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
Hoy! I posted a 'hi' before. Said Gary's Dark Feast might sometimes resemble a portion of fish and chips, or a bunch sour grapes. But hi again, anyway. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.235.200 |
Hi, Giancarlo. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.240.138 |
Whatup, G. | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 159.208.34.100 |
I suppose I should say 'hi' as well. 'hi' | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
These intro threads always feel like 'Goodnight John boy', don't they? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
What are you wearing? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
Cloth, mostly. BTW Ha! http://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.images.search .yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Dtennant%2520hamlet%26fr2%3Dtab-w eb%26fr%3Dbt-portal&w=334&h=500&imgurl=static.flickr.com%2F2163%2F2873524662_67f 600dbcb.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2F64148767%40N00%2F2873524 662%2F&size=123.7kB&name=david+tennant+defending+those+of+us+geting+crushed...&p =tennant+hamlet&type=JPG&oid=1a895c03ebf0e826&fusr=penelope+waits&tit=david+tenn ant+defending+those+of+us+geting+crushed...&hurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fp hotos%2F64148767%40N00%2F&no=9&tt=53&sigr=11lp64j69&sigi=11gmjrgla&sigb=134dhi42 0&sigh=11as1s4fi | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Welcome Giancarlo! gianc-w | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Hiya, Giancarlo. And very best of luck to you, now you've finally joined the circus of madness! I've been trying to figure out what any of us have in common save for enjoying Ramsey's fiction, and the best I've come up with so far is that we've nearly all at one time or another been under the care of the mental health profession . . . The couch is this way, over on the left. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Although some are on the right. But that just led to arguments. We're trying to position it dead centre now. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.3 |
Hi everybody! Thank you for your welcome! As a reply to Mark, I'd have to confess I am a certified jungian analyst, the craziest sort then, and with a dark streak making to see my patients' suicide as the best outcome of treatment. What's the reason for crawling on the Earth, after all, if not realizing that nothing matters...suicide would not either, I'd have to admit, so reading Horror, and Ramsey in particular, is the only motive behind having to withstand the "gift" of life. Am I joking? Who knows, that's the way my Mind usually works! Hello again! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Golly, Giancarlo! That's a hellua leap in. Forgive my naivety, but I always thought all Jungian Analysts were certified . . .  | ||
| Coral (Coral) Username: Coral Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 91.108.102.57 |
Hey ho Giancarlo, welcome. That's quite a life view you have there. I hope you'll enjoy yourself here! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
Welcome, Giancarlo! | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.3 |
Everybody, have a good day! Yes Mark, all analysts, Jungian or else, should be certified, but many of them prefer working out of the clan since being certified would mean being subject to control by tax authorities...as a consequence, anyone could declare himself/herself an analyst. Jung, as an eccentric scholar, was not entirely against the "declare-yourself" practice. Even Lacan, as far as I know, attested to self-permission, but those were kind of koans, I surmise, to cudgel one's brains upon. Truth to tell, I feel often ashamed of authority's confirmation: who can say what an analyst really is? There were "analysts" in Greece, and in Rome too, but they were under many gods and inspired by philosophical schools which didn't care about final papers. As Groucho Marx says, I wouldn't like belonging to a club having such one as me among its members. Ciao! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.235.182 |
Lacan was kicked out from the higher echelons of Freudian orthodoxy - good for him! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.231.55 |
Ah, to be Jung at heart.... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
What's the reason for crawling on the Earth, after all, if not realizing that nothing matters... Ah, my kind of guy. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.3 |
To tell the whole story, nothing matters when mattering most... |