"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."

Intermezzo

Se un filosofo è un uomo cieco,
in una stanza buia,
che cerca un gatto nero che non c’è,
un teologo è l’uomo
che riesce a trovare quel gatto

– Bertrand Russell


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Spooktober 27 – The Black Monk (2)

Chapter 3 After supper, when the visitors had gone, he went to his room and lay down on the sofa: he wanted to think about the monk. But a minute later Tanya came in. “Here, Andryusha; read father’s articles,” she said, giving him a bundle

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Spooktober 26 – The Black Monk (1)

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) was a Russian physician, short-story writer and playwright, and I’m not particularly fond of him, though he’s widely regarded as one of the greatest masters of modern short fiction and who am I to argue? His work is celebrated for its psychological

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Beauty and Ugliness: an exhibition

A few pictures from the recently closed exhibition on Beauty and Ugliness as an aesthetic paradigma in which what’s ideal and what’s grotesque melt together as sides of the same coin. The exhibition featured works by Brueghel (lent from the other exhibition at Palazzo Reale),

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5 Comments
  • impbianco
    Posted at 23:51h, 08 February Reply

    Dire che mi trovo pianamente d’accordo è dire poco! :P

    X-Bye

  • venturo
    Posted at 11:58h, 09 February Reply

    E’ troppo che non passo di qui!

    Un saluto cara Shelidon…

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 12:15h, 09 February Reply

    Ciao a te, carissima commessa.

  • HowlingWolf
    Posted at 09:54h, 11 February Reply

    Ne conoscevo una versione alternativa che diceva che lo scenziato cerca un gatto nero in una stanza buia; il teologo cerca, in una stanza buia, un gatto nero che non c’è, il politico è quello che in una stanza buia, cercando un gatto nero che non c’è, dopo un po’ inizia a gridare ‘L’ho preso: L’ho preso!”

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 10:41h, 11 February Reply

    Decisamente notevole! :-D

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