Sulle strade al mattino il troppo traffico mi sfianca;
mi innervosiscono i semafori e gli stop, e la sera ritorno con malesseri speciali:
non servono tranquillanti o terapie,
ci vuole un’altra vita.
"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

S.S. Van Dine was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), an art critic, editor, and novelist from the US who created Philo Vance, apparently one of the defining amateur detectives of the Golden Age of detective fiction. The Vance series ran to twelve

This is the third collection I read from these charming little light-blue books with the golden pages, and they’re uneven at best. Once again, as such, I have mixed feelings about this collection and I’ll have to proceed scientifically to give a rating, so here

In 1947, British-American poet W.H. Auden published The Age of Anxiety, a long poem subtitled “A Baroque Eclogue”. In a nutshell, four strangers meet in a bar on Third Avenue in Manhattan, on All Souls’ Night, so it’s even seasonal, in the middle of a

S.S. Van Dine was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), an art critic, editor, and novelist from the US who created Philo Vance, apparently one of the defining amateur detectives of the Golden Age of detective fiction. The Vance series ran to twelve

This is the third collection I read from these charming little light-blue books with the golden pages, and they’re uneven at best. Once again, as such, I have mixed feelings about this collection and I’ll have to proceed scientifically to give a rating, so here

In 1947, British-American poet W.H. Auden published The Age of Anxiety, a long poem subtitled “A Baroque Eclogue”. In a nutshell, four strangers meet in a bar on Third Avenue in Manhattan, on All Souls’ Night, so it’s even seasonal, in the middle of a
8 Comments
heraclitus
Posted at 07:44h, 10 Octoberuna vita diversa o una vita in più? sono favorevole, comunque, e al cambiamento e alla moltiplicazione…
HowlingWolf
Posted at 08:02h, 10 OctoberMi preoccupano un po’ questi malesseri “speciali”…
Shelidon
Posted at 10:54h, 10 OctoberChiedere delucidazioni a Battiato, io non so niente. Però è una buona espressione.
contenebbia
Posted at 14:16h, 10 OctoberBattiatro ha sempre ragione, anche quando parla con “ciuffi di isotopi in mano” o di “rozzi cibernetici signori degli anelli orgoglio dei manicomi”.
utente anonimo
Posted at 21:26h, 10 Octoberfoto molto bella, ma non dovevi mostrarmi la gamba…
se sei tu e non “un’altra vita”
ciao
ilcavalierelettrico
Njord
Posted at 07:28h, 11 OctoberAPPERO’! CHE BEL MODO DI FARE UN BAGNO!
:->
Shelidon
Posted at 10:59h, 11 October@ Conte: vero, anche se io ho sempre preferito “gli amminoacidi”
@ Cavaliere e Njord: oh, ma sarete invasati, eh? *__^
Damiani
Posted at 18:12h, 11 Octoberti capisco….e piccole necessità bisogna concedersi…