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2026-07-25 19:41:57 UTC

Tarnport on Nostr: Ancient Italian hardline Communist retired professoressa, the kind of gravelly ...

Ancient Italian hardline Communist retired professoressa, the kind of gravelly no-nonsense intellectual who's read absolutely everything in the original language, cuts her own hair with a dull butcher knife at the kitchen sink on principle, and still calls East Germany "Occupied Germany," I quote:

"Well you know, we really were never better off in Italy than under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I harbor a great deal of nostalgia, especially for Maria Theresa."

My chin was slack on the floor.