"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."

Nighthawks

Che questo quadro fosse oggetto di una vera e propria mania, lo sapevo. Ma non pensavo fino a questo punto.

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S.S. Van Dine’s The Scarab Murder

S.S. Van Dine was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), an art critic, editor, and novelist from the US who created Philo Vance, apparently one of the defining amateur detectives of the Golden Age of detective fiction. The Vance series ran to twelve

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Classic Science Fiction Stories

This is the third collection I read from these charming little light-blue books with the golden pages, and they’re uneven at best. Once again, as such, I have mixed feelings about this collection and I’ll have to proceed scientifically to give a rating, so here

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architecture, engineering and construction

Artificial Integrity in the Age of Anxiety

In 1947, British-American poet W.H. Auden published The Age of Anxiety, a long poem subtitled “A Baroque Eclogue”. In a nutshell, four strangers meet in a bar on Third Avenue in Manhattan, on All Souls’ Night, so it’s even seasonal, in the middle of a

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5 Comments
  • Damiani
    Posted at 14:10h, 30 May Reply

    la Gioconda è molto risentita di tutto ciò…

  • utente anonimo
    Posted at 15:37h, 30 May Reply

    E Paride Rotulese non c’è, in questo quadro?

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 16:13h, 30 May Reply

    @ Damiani: eh, mi dispiace… ma portale i miei saluti la prossima volta che la vedi. Dille che io le ho sempre preferito la Vergine delle Rocce. No, magari non dirglielo…

    @ misterioso anonimo: certo che c’è. E’ dietro il bancone. Insieme al gatto.

  • contenebbia
    Posted at 12:53h, 31 May Reply

    C’è la versione alla Bosch?

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 10:03h, 03 June Reply

    Credo di sì, cher Comte. Manca invece una scena che apparve su un Marvel tempo fa (X-Factor #5, su sa il cielo quale X-men Deluxe, mi pare che ne parlai…)

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