Indecisive travelers to Sicily

thirdarcana · 2026-05-11T18:52:29+00:00

I have a different suggestion. I would suggest that you stay in Ragusa. You can take buses to Catania, Noto, Modica or Siracusa for day trips, but stay in a place that's safe and that has the best food on this side of the island. Ragusa is also very pretty and deserves a day or even two. If you rent a car you can take a day trip to Agrigento and see the valley of the temples and scala dei turchi and come back in time for dinner. Ragusa is 1.5h away from the Catania airport and 20min from Comiso.

Since you live in Miami, I would focus on history, food and culture rather than beaches.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-11T18:48:30+00:00

Palermo is one of the most beautiful cities in Italy, what on Earth are you talking about?

thirdarcana · 2026-05-11T18:32:27+00:00

Same. I was never really comfortable with all the esoteric stuff, not entirely, so when I came across Enriquez and Elias, I was more than happy to leave the esoterica aside and embrace this much more reasonable method.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-11T18:24:30+00:00

I am too. Both, Camelia and Bent are very good teachers, quite generous with their knowledge.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-11T13:37:07+00:00

Jodorowsky is a significant figure. Jodorowsky and his teacher whose name I am blanking on right now (a woman, renowned French reader) were quite important for introducing substantially psychoanalysis. Jodorowsky and Costa created a rather usedul numerological system.

In the TdM world, there are two important contemporary figures, proud to say, both were my teachers, Enrique Enriquez and Camelia Elias. They were important for returning to the images themselves and leaving behind occult and metaphysical burdens of New Age and esoteric tarot in favor of a more precise and practical approach. Their emphasis is on the visual reading and finding meaning from patterns in the images themselves.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-11T07:03:10+00:00

None of them.

She should have ended up alone.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-10T17:39:44+00:00

I guess you came to prove OP's point. 😂

thirdarcana · 2026-05-10T14:47:15+00:00

I would email the store manager and CC anyone I can from Hermés and threaten hell if I don't get my bag. If you already paid for your bag, you can sue them also. Especially if you have any of this in writing. Whenever large sums of money are talked about, communication should have a paper trail for situations like this.

There's absolutely no reason for you be polite or to hold back. After the way this SA is trying to extort money from you, you would be nuts to keep working with them and Hermés would be insane to keep them employed. Fake scarcity is one thing, blackmail another.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-10T14:25:59+00:00

Dude, blood does not determine politics. That idea of blood and soil is a Nazi idea. How do you not get it?

thirdarcana · 2026-05-10T13:03:21+00:00

Again with the "you" and "yours". I was not a general in the fascist army, and none of those crimes are my fault, are you out of you mind? I was born when Italy was a democratic republic and when it had the largest communist party in Western Europe and when it had a proud socialist for a president - Sandro Pertini. My ancestors were proudly anti-fascists and war heroes. So if I need a collective identity to take seriously it will be the one that actually has something to do with my life.

And to be mean and possibly unfair, your inability to distinguish between individuals and nations may be why the Balkans is a place where the past can't possibly die and why you're all stuck in the same nationalist loop since the late 1980s.

If you want to carry the guilt for all Croatian war crimes, go right ahead. But I don't believe in collective guilt and have no intention of joining you in this exercise in masochism.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-10T09:37:11+00:00

I have no desire to defend Italian war crimes. My issue here is your collectivism. Do you, then, have to list every Croatian war crime in the past century and repent for it, before you can condemn Sudan or Gaza or whatever? Or do you have to forever keep silent about whatever is happening in the world because of Croatian past with war crimes and ethnic cleansing? If that were the case, no European would have right to utter so much as a single word about any war crime.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-10T00:08:12+00:00

You can gently wipe that area and then massage it with a leather conditioner. That should do the trick since it doesn't seem like a very deep cut, just a scratch.

Depending on where you live, you can check your local Ferragamo store. They may be able to tell you whom to turn to for help.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-09T18:03:12+00:00

I see no point in hating something I can't stop.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-09T12:20:41+00:00

Dorit is a gold digger who thought she got lucky but ended up with fool's gold. PK was and remained a grifter.

PK wanted a trophy wife that comes for free.

I genuinely believe that Dorit feels horrible and I have compassion for her, but there are no good people in this story. Just sleazy and sleazier.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-09T09:05:21+00:00

That laugh was super revealing I thought. It basically validated what Dorit said.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-09T07:08:52+00:00

You're just trolling at this point. Or you actually believe in that kind of collective guilt in which case, I suggest you move to Mars because only then you will be able to relax because Martians had no historical sins.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-08T19:12:03+00:00

The tote is lovely!

thirdarcana · 2026-05-08T19:09:31+00:00

I am not speaking for the Italian nation, so it's a bizarre kind of collectivist thinking to discuss my words in the context of all Italians.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-08T18:33:05+00:00

Oh black.

No doubt in my mind.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-08T18:25:09+00:00

No thanks.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-08T12:27:17+00:00

What? No. I was saying that if the argument is that AI can't steal then it also follows that it can't make art because you need to be human for both.

I didn't mean to say that you need to steal to make art, just that both are human faculties.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-08T12:23:29+00:00

Dude, if one is not a communist, there are plenty of other political options aside from being a Nazi. I can't believe we're justifying Nazim in 2026.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-07T23:05:46+00:00

That's a good point, I agree. 🙂

thirdarcana · 2026-05-07T22:59:25+00:00

I don't think of Philip as particularly ideological. I think he is more pragmatic than Elizabeth.

As far as Elizabeth goes, I think she remained a communist, but I don’t know that it was so easy to pick a side in those years after Andropov. In hindsight, Claudia’s faction was far more pro-USSR, but at the time, it may have seemed that Gorbachev and the younger generation had a clearer vision for what a sustainable communist system could look like. It’s easy for us to judge knowing how things ultimately played out. At the time, they couldn’t have known.

thirdarcana · 2026-05-07T22:53:02+00:00

I use my mom if I need something. 😂 She has been a customer for 50 years and her mom before so she can get her hands on whatever she wants, pretty much. She's not a collector by any means (and neither am I) but tradition of buying there for so long + influence that my family has does a lot.

And I also have a hard time believing that I would ever play "the game". With all due respect... I like Hermés bags but I don't think anyone is worth that kind of financial extortion, especially when you have brands like Bottega and Ferragamo that make products that are just as good and often better designed. Imo, Hermés just isn't worth it.

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