"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."

Nighthawks

Che questo quadro fosse oggetto di una vera e propria mania, lo sapevo. Ma non pensavo fino a questo punto.

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Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures

You might say that this is a historical novel about two pioneer women hunting for fossils on the famed beach of Lyme, one of them being paleontology legend Mary Anning and the other being the less famous fossil hunter and collector Elizabeth Philpot.You’d be wrong,

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books and literature

Cixin Liu’s Hold Up the Sky

This is a really splendid collection of stories, some shorter than other, and I wouldn’t have collected them this way: you have proper sci-fi stories and fairy tales, stories about science (with very little fiction), a story on coal mines and a war tale. But,

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architecture, engineering and construction

The Answer’s in Your Model (and yet, it might be wrong)

A few weeks ago, in one of those happy convergences of life, I was reading an Italian essay on Italo Calvino and artificial intelligence (I wrote about it here), and there’s a very interesting set of passages that have to do with our contemporary obsession

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5 Comments
  • Damiani
    Posted at 14:10h, 30 May Reply

    la Gioconda è molto risentita di tutto ciò…

  • utente anonimo
    Posted at 15:37h, 30 May Reply

    E Paride Rotulese non c’è, in questo quadro?

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 16:13h, 30 May Reply

    @ Damiani: eh, mi dispiace… ma portale i miei saluti la prossima volta che la vedi. Dille che io le ho sempre preferito la Vergine delle Rocce. No, magari non dirglielo…

    @ misterioso anonimo: certo che c’è. E’ dietro il bancone. Insieme al gatto.

  • contenebbia
    Posted at 12:53h, 31 May Reply

    C’è la versione alla Bosch?

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 10:03h, 03 June Reply

    Credo di sì, cher Comte. Manca invece una scena che apparve su un Marvel tempo fa (X-Factor #5, su sa il cielo quale X-men Deluxe, mi pare che ne parlai…)

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