"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."

Bello tornare a casa

Proprio oggi che ho dimenticato il canotto, dovrei andare in studio verso la tarda mattinata a disegnare un portacandele per il patio della sala da pranzo. Ammesso e non concesso che il mio collega attualmente in Israele dia segni di vita e non si sia già suicidato buttandosi dalla terrazza dell’ultimo piano.
I programmi per il prossimo futuro sono quantomeno vaghi: che io debba partire la settimana del 13? E dire che ricordo la mia voce chiedere almeno due settimane in Italia…

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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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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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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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2 Comments
  • damakaris
    Posted at 19:45h, 08 July Reply

    >non si sia già suicidato buttandosi >dalla terrazza dell’ultimo piano

    Finendo in una delle finestre a wasistdas e danneggiandovi altri 1000 e rotti dollari al metro di parquet?

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 17:01h, 19 July Reply

    Ad esempio, sì.

    (puro genio le wasistdas)

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