The prompt in class was about what came to mind when we thought of Italy as a child. Due to my obsessive interest in Bugs Bunny as a child, I thought of gondoliers.
I imagined the entire country was a series of canals, waterways, and aqueducts and that the gondoliers were the one true gamers of this wild, watery landscape, like Kevin Costner in _Waterworld_ or cowboys in the old west.
I thought of them like the paid and semi-starving actors who sang love-ballads in a Mario Brothers accent at the Venice-themed hotel in Las Vegas. They would sing and cart around fat tourists with a painted blue and partly cloudy sky above them and blue and chlorine-saturated water beneath them.
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