5/24: in Rome

...(kind of) for the day.  Our electricity went out during a morning storm and didn't come back on until dinner time.  In the interim I settled into Brian Selznick's Run Away With Me, set in the urbs aeterna in 1986.  I spent spring 1989 in Rome, and the places and atmosphere felt heart-pullingly familiar.  (But maybe that's part of Rome's magic, its combination of the particular and the eternal?)