"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."
Questo week-end sarò, per dirla con le parole di una dei miei deliziosi ospiti, a Fossato* (non di Vico) Cantagallo (non quello sull’autostrada dell’appennino) Prato (quello vicino a Firenze, non l’altro). Un luogo che per raggiungere bisogna già sapere dove si trovi, come l’Isola che non c’è o l’isola di Jack Sparrow.
Vedrò amici, parlerò con gente, starò in compagnia.
Ci ritroviamo al mio ritorno. Nel frattempo, lascio la porta aperta: curiosate pure.
Continues from yesterday… ATORRENT of rain held us marooned the next day. Miss Leahy was confined to her room, with a nurse in constant attendance and the house doctor making hourly calls. She was on the verge of a nervous collapse, he told me, crying
I wouldn’t have started this book on my own, and for many reasons. One of them is that in Italy it’s marketed as Young Adult Fiction, and I hate most of that stuff, and the other is its imposing length: 600 pages. I was distracted,
“The Phantom Farmhouse” is a short story written by Seabury Quinn, first published in the October 1923 issue of Weird Tales. It is one of Quinn’s most famous standalone works outside of his popular Jules de Grandin detective series. I had been at the new
Continues from yesterday… ATORRENT of rain held us marooned the next day. Miss Leahy was confined to her room, with a nurse in constant attendance and the house doctor making hourly calls. She was on the verge of a nervous collapse, he told me, crying
I wouldn’t have started this book on my own, and for many reasons. One of them is that in Italy it’s marketed as Young Adult Fiction, and I hate most of that stuff, and the other is its imposing length: 600 pages. I was distracted,
“The Phantom Farmhouse” is a short story written by Seabury Quinn, first published in the October 1923 issue of Weird Tales. It is one of Quinn’s most famous standalone works outside of his popular Jules de Grandin detective series. I had been at the new
4 Comments
Chiarina82
Posted at 07:47h, 22 Aprilvedrò gente, farò cose :P
Buon weekend. :)
heraclitus
Posted at 09:30h, 22 Aprildivertiti e riposati e fai cose e vedi gente e noi ti aspettiamo qui. ;-)
Damiani
Posted at 18:17h, 22 Aprildivertiti, magari con del buon cibo e una buona compagnia..
noi intanto si entra e si curiosa…
Shelidon
Posted at 10:47h, 23 AprilChiarina, esattamente ;-p
Un bellissimo week-end, non c’è che dire. Ottimo cibo, ottima compagnia.