"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
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HowlingWolf
Posted at 07:46h, 24 OctoberConfesso, non ho realizzato che era “Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti” finchè non sono andato a controllare, ma sapevo già dopo i primi due versi di dover andare a spulciare tra le canzoni del Faber…
HowlingWolf
Posted at 07:47h, 24 October(ritento, il primo tentativo non è andato a buon fine)
Confesso, non ho realizzato che era “Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti” finchè non sono andato a controllare, ma sapevo già dopo i primi due versi di dover andare a spulciare tra le canzoni del Faber…
Shelidon
Posted at 08:39h, 24 OctoberLa piattaforma splinder è sempre peggio, sia per la gestione dei commenti che per il caricamento dei post. Non parliamo poi della funzione di ricerca, che prima funzionava male e ora non funziona proprio. Mah…
A parte questo, è uno stile decisamente inconfondibile, n’est-ce pas?