While repairing a sinkhole in my neighborhood, some workers found an 18th-century bridge. Old cases are historical millefeuille, where with every shovel stroke of the excavator one runs the risk of coming across a ruin of inestimable value. Since it is a heavily trafficked area, the authorities literally covered up the matter. Beforehand and because the topic had reached the networks, they sent an archaeologist to investigate. The show then went from ruins to mansplaining, womensplaining and even childrensplaining.
The proximity and the summer boredom allowed me to slip into the role of the old lady of the curtain and witness what the Indiana Jones films do not teach: those curious people who also have an opinion about the material from which a carpenter’s glass is made. She has a college degree and they have the history channel. Tie. Neighbors who I only heard talking about the ice rocks in their gin and tonics were talking about ashlars, posts and lintels. No one has resisted being a medievalist for a day, because although we revile those who practice this profession professionally, we all have an orator within us.
Autumn gives us back the colloquia in their splendor; we could run through the grid and jump from group to group. We live in the golden age of speakers, those creatures who are never silent and just as easily express their opinion on the statutes of the RFEF or the time it takes to dismember a corpse – we have had a very busy summer. Their allology repulses us when they are nothing more than our mirror. The only difference is that they charge for what we reveal: giving opinions on everything without knowing anything. We suck him from the cradle. Each child who came across the discovery asked their parents what a miracle it was. None of them received the answer “I don’t know.”
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