"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."

Intermezzo

Se un filosofo è un uomo cieco,
in una stanza buia,
che cerca un gatto nero che non c’è,
un teologo è l’uomo
che riesce a trovare quel gatto

– Bertrand Russell


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S.S. Van Dine’s The Scarab Murder

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

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books and literature

Classic Science Fiction Stories

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

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architecture, engineering and construction

Artificial Integrity in the Age of Anxiety

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

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5 Comments
  • impbianco
    Posted at 23:51h, 08 February Reply

    Dire che mi trovo pianamente d’accordo è dire poco! :P

    X-Bye

  • venturo
    Posted at 11:58h, 09 February Reply

    E’ troppo che non passo di qui!

    Un saluto cara Shelidon…

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 12:15h, 09 February Reply

    Ciao a te, carissima commessa.

  • HowlingWolf
    Posted at 09:54h, 11 February Reply

    Ne conoscevo una versione alternativa che diceva che lo scenziato cerca un gatto nero in una stanza buia; il teologo cerca, in una stanza buia, un gatto nero che non c’è, il politico è quello che in una stanza buia, cercando un gatto nero che non c’è, dopo un po’ inizia a gridare ‘L’ho preso: L’ho preso!”

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 10:41h, 11 February Reply

    Decisamente notevole! :-D

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