"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."
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
7 Comments
heraclitus
Posted at 14:01h, 17 Juneio sono “pi greco”, il numero che tutti amano.
Shelidon
Posted at 17:03h, 17 JuneAddirittura!
Ho visto da te che c’è una proliferazione di 2… quanta gente socevole sul web. E poi dicono che siamo tutti sociopatici!
utente anonimo
Posted at 23:42h, 17 Junehow much is infinity plus infinity?
;*
* t. *
ChiaraParanoica
Posted at 08:11h, 18 Juneio sono un due.
Ma secondo me un po’ si sbagliano.
Shelidon
Posted at 10:14h, 18 JuneInfinity, my dear ;*
@ Chiara: beh, per come la vedo io sei abbastanza socievole. Ci sono vari modi di esserlo. Non penso che un sociopatico di quelli veri aprirebbe un blog personale come il tuo o andrebbe a bere birra con gli amici *__^
ubimario
Posted at 07:27h, 19 JuneL’infinito non è tutto*.
Questo, per esempio, il mio responso al quizze:
I am the natural number: e.
“I go with the flow”
Laddove la chiave di lettura è che “dall’alba al tramonto c’è più tempo di quanto un uomo possa avere bisogno”, e che, in definitiva, dell’infinito ce ne possiamo sbattere altamente. E from afar, of course.
Tiè. =P
* A quanto ne so non è una citazione, non ancora. Quindi autorizzo fin d’ora l’universo mondo a rivendersela, indicandomi come autore se proprio mi vuol fare un piacere.
Shelidon
Posted at 07:47h, 19 JuneGuarda, il concetto è che puoi fare quel che ti pare, tanto visto da qui sei così piccino che difficilmente riesco a distinguere i tuoi gesti :-p