Non so nuotare

July 28, 2006

Sono sommersa dallo SPAM. Casella e-mail di casa, dello studio, del sito, del sito dell’associazione, … e che succede? Perché tutti vogliono vendermi del Viagra? Qualcuno sta cercando di dirmi qualcosa? E’ un messaggio subliminale da parte del mondo? Ma poi ci sarà davvero qualcuno che si compra delle medicine via internet? O il cui massimo godimento nella vita è scaricare una nuova suoneria per il suo cellulare? Sì, questi esistono, ne conosco parecchi… ok, ma perché lo SPAM non lo mandano a LORO???

books and literature

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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books and literature

Classic Science Fiction Stories

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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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