World Cup part 2

Martine is taking it better than I expected.

"The Italians cheated," she said this morning when she came in. "And look what they did to Zidane."

I've just got back from picking Christopher up at camp, and have been greeted by the report that the other player called Zidane, who is half Algerian, a "terrorist." That's why Zidane head-butted him. "They planned it," Martine said. "They were working on it."

"Definitely," I said.

"Oh, well," Martine said. "Italy. That's the country of the Mafia."


I love nationalism.

Seriously. I do. Ed would shoot me if he heard me say that, so I'll add that I don't like nationalism when it leads to Nazis and world war. I like it fine at the World Cup.

Ed says this is a very good book:

update: Christian just got here. Mamaroneck is a mob scene of cars with Italian flags & drivers shouting out their windows. "I never got yelled at so much in my life," Christian said.

"I thought Mamaroneck was French," Christopher said. So did I. I don't know why. I think maybe we read an article about a great French cheese shop in Mamaroneck.

"No, it's Italian," Christian said. "Italian and Jewish."

Martine told Christian that the other guy either called Zidane a terrorist or said something about his mother.

"I'm sure he said something about his mother," I said.

Now we're talking about the Mafia again. The Mafia and knee-capping.

Have I mentioned I've ordered a copy of The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy?

Well, I have. And not a moment too soon.



Meanwhile the printer, which is networked to Ed's computer downstairs, keeps spitting out articles on Zidane from French newspapers.

This is a great mystery, Zidane.




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-- CatherineJohnson - 10 Jul 2006

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