Thursday, January 30, 2003

I read on the Fix

I read on the Fix yesterday that, in the 1850s, Italian fishermen here on the Bay used to act as their own foghorns, singing popular opera tunes to warn off their colleagues from collisions.  I can hear the foghorns from my flat and relish their comforting boom, but the old operatic way must have offered a very rich, if quieter, auditory experience.  And it would really tie in to the weather reports I hear every morning, advising me to watch out for arias of patchy morning fog.