ROME 25/10 – Day 21: Broken stuff

At 7:24 the sun broke the plane of the horizon.

It shall once again sink beneath it on the other side of the arc at 18:26.

The Ave Maria Bell, in its Curial cycle format, ought to ring at 18:45.

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A nice view as I exited a little “organic” grocery which happens to have good cheeses and small-label wines that are unsullied by additives.

Last nights “things fell apart”.

First, I used a small scissor to cut up some parsley over my pasta (with tuna, capers, lemon and hot pepper). The scissor fell apart.

Then, the corkscrew fell apart. I have tried an application of superglue.

There’s this:

In the 1930’s, Bella Dodd & the Communists put 1100 homosexuals and Masons into the priesthood–many of them became high ranking gatekeepers:

Today, the 2 most common reasons for expulsion from seminaries are:

a) kneeling to receive the Host;
b) belief in the existence of Hell… pic.twitter.com/skt5cCsw7K

— Timothy Gordon (Rules for Retrogrades Show) (@timotheeology) October 18, 2025

c) blowing the whistle on active sodomites at the seminary,
d) refusing to call the Holy Spirit “she”,

And more.

And this on the Feast of St. Luke…

Isn’t it a lovely thought that the Virgin Mary spent hours patiently sitting with the infant Jesus at the home of St. Luke the Evangelist, so that he could paint her portrait – and that she used the moment to tell him the whole sacred story of salvation?@BLMedieval Add. 71117 B… pic.twitter.com/v33LV3xCT0

— Vir Desideriorum (@VirDesideriorum) October 18, 2025

White to move and mate in 2.

NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

Alas Hans Niemann ended youngster Abhimanyu Mishra’s 71-game unbeaten streak to tie Wesley So in 1st place in the 2025 U.S. Chess Championship. So drew swiftly against Levon Aronian and was thus caught by Caruana won against Dariusz Swiercz.