"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."

Incontro perturbante

 

T’ho incrociata alla stazione
che inseguivi il tuo profumo
presa in trappola da un tailleur grigio fumo
i giornali in una mano e nell’altra il tuo destino
camminavi fianco a fianco al tuo assassino.

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Suzanne Vega in Milan

Yesterday, we went to see Suzanne Vega, one of the greatest artists and musicians of all times whom occupies a special place in my heart next to Tori Amos. It was a packed house at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi here in Milan, with people belonging to

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books and literature

Isaac Asimov’s Gold (and other stories)

It’s unfortunate that I’m coming to this after the very unsatisfactory collection of “fantasy” stories (Asimov never wrote fantasy: he wrote satire), because this was another disappointment. The book is half short stories and half non-fiction, for random reasons, and the non-fiction half is random writings

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books and literature

The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol + Exit Strategy

I’m not crying: a piece of some murdering bot must have gotten in my eye. Rogue Protocol is the third novella in the Murderbot Diaries, and deals with the titular character going deep undercover to figure out what happened in the “mining incident” that was

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  • HowlingWolf
    Posted at 07:46h, 24 October Reply

    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…

  • HowlingWolf
    Posted at 07:47h, 24 October Reply

    (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 October Reply

    La 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?

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