"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."

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architecture, engineering and construction

The Answer’s in Your Model (and yet, it might be wrong)

A few weeks ago, in one of those happy convergences of life, I was reading an Italian essay on Italo Calvino and artificial intelligence (I wrote about it here), and there’s a very interesting set of passages that have to do with our contemporary obsession

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movies and tv

The End of Oak Street

By the life of me, I don’t understand how’s possible that this movie was ever cleared for production. The concept is simple, and shamefully Stephen King-esque: a portion of a small suburban town gets teleported into a not particularly well-defined “age of dinosaurs,” and the

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books and literature

Susanna Clarke’s The Ladies of Grace Adieau

I had forgotten how much I was bored by Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, but I trust I’ll like other stuff by the same author and, before tackling Piranesi, I decided to finally approach this one. Not remembering these are spin-off stories from Jonathan

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3 Comments
  • Elderion
    Posted at 16:47h, 07 October Reply

    Il terzo segreto di Fatima è: ti è piaciuto o no Star Trek? E’ dal 14 agosto che sto aspettando di saperlo!!!!

  • damakaris
    Posted at 19:13h, 07 October Reply

    Giusto per fare la mia figura da ignorante quotidiana: che c…o e’ il “cinema archeologico”?

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 16:29h, 17 October Reply

    @ Elderion: insomma, mica ti aspettavi un giudizio affrettato!

    @ Karis: ehm… hai presente quando accendi la tv e dici "oh no, un altro documentario sugli egizi, giriamo?". Ecco, più o meno.

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The End of Oak Street

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