"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."

A volte tornano…

Tra gli incubi della mia infanzia, uno dei posti principali lo occupava lo Zimox, uno sciroppo soprannominato affettusamente in vari modi.
Orbene, dopo una settimana di malattia mi sono decisa a chiedere al mio medico di cambiare l’inefficace antibiotico che stavo prendendo, un pastiglione gigantesco. 

E lui mi ha prescritto un nuovo medicinale. 

In bustine. 

Indovinate che sapore ha?

 

music and theatre

Suzanne Vega in Milan

Yesterday, we went to see Suzanne Vega, one of the greatest artists and musicians of all times whom occupies a special place in my heart next to Tori Amos. It was a packed house at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi here in Milan, with people belonging to

Read More »
books and literature

Isaac Asimov’s Gold (and other stories)

It’s unfortunate that I’m coming to this after the very unsatisfactory collection of “fantasy” stories (Asimov never wrote fantasy: he wrote satire), because this was another disappointment. The book is half short stories and half non-fiction, for random reasons, and the non-fiction half is random writings

Read More »
books and literature

The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol + Exit Strategy

I’m not crying: a piece of some murdering bot must have gotten in my eye. Rogue Protocol is the third novella in the Murderbot Diaries, and deals with the titular character going deep undercover to figure out what happened in the “mining incident” that was

Read More »
Share on LinkedIn
Throw on Reddit
Roll on Tumblr
Mail it
8 Comments
  • citoplasma
    Posted at 06:17h, 26 September Reply

    Bleah! Anch’io non ho mai sopportato gli sciroppi medicinali. Troppo schifosamente dolci e nauseabondi, dai sapori terrificanti.

    Se vai sul mio blog ho fatto un piccolo post su Ken Parker. Ma proprio poca cosa, non c’è paragone con le tue disamine da lettrice pignola professionale!!!

    Gabba gabba hey!

  • Damiani
    Posted at 06:28h, 26 September Reply

    lo zimox è tremendo con quell’agghiacciante sapore di pseudobanana. Terribile. Condivido con te questo incubo infantile!

  • chirieleison
    Posted at 08:51h, 26 September Reply

    guarisci presto!

  • ChiaraParanoica
    Posted at 09:59h, 26 September Reply

    mi sono sempre chiesta come facciate a tirare giù gli antibiotici in sciroppo o bustine.

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 11:37h, 26 September Reply

    Citoplasma, passerò a vedere!

    Damiani, mi conforta non essere sola…

    Grazie, Matta.

    Chiara, vedila così: meglio lo sciroppo delle supposte.

  • heraclitus
    Posted at 09:10h, 27 September Reply

    non mi ricordo lo zimox.

    però che dolci ricordi il betotal…

  • utente anonimo
    Posted at 10:17h, 27 September Reply

    …eppure il sintoplus (o syntoplus?) era buono: con quel suo sapore di fragola, il colore rosa, quella consistenza densa ma tenue, che alle volte ci scappava pure una bollicina. non so gli altri cosa ne pensino ma io sono dell’idea che non si faccia di ogni sciroppo un fascio :-)

    saluti e salute

    ilcavalierelettrico

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 11:07h, 28 September Reply

    Cavaliere, dalla tua descrizione anche quella roba sembra nauseabonda!

Post A Reply to Shelidon Cancel Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

RELATED POSTS

Suzanne Vega in Milan

Yesterday, we went to see Suzanne Vega, one of the greatest artists and musicians of all times whom occupies a special place in my heart next to Tori Amos. It was a packed house at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi here in Milan, with people belonging to

Read More

Isaac Asimov’s Gold (and other stories)

It’s unfortunate that I’m coming to this after the very unsatisfactory collection of “fantasy” stories (Asimov never wrote fantasy: he wrote satire), because this was another disappointment. The book is half short stories and half non-fiction, for random reasons, and the non-fiction half is random writings

Read More

The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol + Exit Strategy

I’m not crying: a piece of some murdering bot must have gotten in my eye. Rogue Protocol is the third novella in the Murderbot Diaries, and deals with the titular character going deep undercover to figure out what happened in the “mining incident” that was

Read More