"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

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The Universe within a Room

Gaston Bachelard‘s Poetics of Space is the book that gives this week its title, and its central claim, that the house is our first universe, a cosmos before we know the word, is seductive enough that it’s worth resisting for a moment. You know the

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August 5, 2026 6:00 am
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Clarice Lispector’s Room you never designed for yourself

The premise of The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel from 1964 is almost nothing: a sculptor, known to us only by her initials, decides to clean out the maid’s room after the maid has left her employment. That’s the entire plot. She

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August 3, 2026 6:00 am
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2 Comments
  • LoopyDeLoop
    Posted at 19:23h, 13 December Reply

    Avrebbe dovuto ricordarmi qualcosa?

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 19:31h, 13 December Reply

    A te non credo, caro, almeno non nelle mie intenzioni originarie, ma sentiti pure libero di ricordare qualcosa a riguardo, se ti fa piacere.

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