Word: colloquio
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...that I come here as a mongrel, perhaps an avatar of one of the two dogs in Cervantes' great tale, El colloquio de los perros, there is something incredibly thrilling about a variation that is now developing from the experience that I had known at the "U". When I arrived there in 1971, French was on the wane. Those of us who had learned the discipline in the old style, following the principle of immortal authors and timeless masterpieces, were subjecting what we read and saw to the force of theory that we pretended to practice. (Nineteen-sixty-eight came...
...road to Rome, the truck driver is stopped by the police for a routine check. The driver's license he produces isn't his. Double take, then slow burn. With carabinieri in tow, he roars back home, bursts into the bedroom to find his wife in intimo colloquio with her lover. While the cops collar the accidentally unlicensed Lothario, the husband picks up his naked wife, plunks her seat-first on the red-hot kitchen stove. Pffft...
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