"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."

Ci vuole un bagno caldo…


Sulle strade al mattino il troppo traffico mi sfianca;
mi innervosiscono i semafori e gli stop, e la sera ritorno con malesseri speciali:
non servono tranquillanti o terapie,
ci vuole un’altra vita.

 

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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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books and literature

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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architecture, engineering and construction

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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8 Comments
  • heraclitus
    Posted at 07:44h, 10 October Reply

    una vita diversa o una vita in più? sono favorevole, comunque, e al cambiamento e alla moltiplicazione…

  • HowlingWolf
    Posted at 08:02h, 10 October Reply

    Mi preoccupano un po’ questi malesseri “speciali”…

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 10:54h, 10 October Reply

    Chiedere delucidazioni a Battiato, io non so niente. Però è una buona espressione.

  • contenebbia
    Posted at 14:16h, 10 October Reply

    Battiatro ha sempre ragione, anche quando parla con “ciuffi di isotopi in mano” o di “rozzi cibernetici signori degli anelli orgoglio dei manicomi”.

  • utente anonimo
    Posted at 21:26h, 10 October Reply

    foto molto bella, ma non dovevi mostrarmi la gamba…

    se sei tu e non “un’altra vita”

    ciao

    ilcavalierelettrico

  • Njord
    Posted at 07:28h, 11 October Reply

    APPERO’! CHE BEL MODO DI FARE UN BAGNO!

    :->

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 10:59h, 11 October Reply

    @ Conte: vero, anche se io ho sempre preferito “gli amminoacidi”

    @ Cavaliere e Njord: oh, ma sarete invasati, eh? *__^

  • Damiani
    Posted at 18:12h, 11 October Reply

    ti capisco….e piccole necessità bisogna concedersi…

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