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.
"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

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
8 Comments
heraclitus
Posted at 07:44h, 10 Octoberuna vita diversa o una vita in più? sono favorevole, comunque, e al cambiamento e alla moltiplicazione…
HowlingWolf
Posted at 08:02h, 10 OctoberMi preoccupano un po’ questi malesseri “speciali”…
Shelidon
Posted at 10:54h, 10 OctoberChiedere delucidazioni a Battiato, io non so niente. Però è una buona espressione.
contenebbia
Posted at 14:16h, 10 OctoberBattiatro 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 Octoberfoto molto bella, ma non dovevi mostrarmi la gamba…
se sei tu e non “un’altra vita”
ciao
ilcavalierelettrico
Njord
Posted at 07:28h, 11 OctoberAPPERO’! CHE BEL MODO DI FARE UN BAGNO!
:->
Shelidon
Posted at 10:59h, 11 October@ Conte: vero, anche se io ho sempre preferito “gli amminoacidi”
@ Cavaliere e Njord: oh, ma sarete invasati, eh? *__^
Damiani
Posted at 18:12h, 11 Octoberti capisco….e piccole necessità bisogna concedersi…