"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."
Sh: Ma quindi qual è il vostro budget?
Committente [con vergogna]: Eh, sa, più o meno *cifra irrisoria*
Sh: …
Committente [mortificato]: Però può oscillare, sa, consideri *cifra ancora più irrisoria* per sicurezza.
Sh: …
Committente [affranto]: Eh, lo so…
Sh: Scusi, ma… voi non dovreste essere *prestigiosa istituzione culturale*?
Committente [quasi piangendo]: Eh, ma sa, dipendiamo interamente dalle sovvenzioni statali.
ONE evening — twilight in spring, a young English student, who had wandered northwards as far as the outlying fragments of Scotland called the Orkney and Shetland Islands, found himself on a small island of the latter group, caught in a storm of wind and
The collection is extraordinary and spans from grand feats of sci-fi imagination (the titular story) to humorous tales such as the one in which a writer called Cixin Liu becomes homeless after spending all his money and energy on a grand saga called The Three-Thousand-Body
Well, this was a fairly unusual read for me in this period, I’m more in my sci-fi era, but good things come from good friends who gift you books you wouldn’t have bought: they usually help you discover something cool you didn’t know. What I
ONE evening — twilight in spring, a young English student, who had wandered northwards as far as the outlying fragments of Scotland called the Orkney and Shetland Islands, found himself on a small island of the latter group, caught in a storm of wind and
The collection is extraordinary and spans from grand feats of sci-fi imagination (the titular story) to humorous tales such as the one in which a writer called Cixin Liu becomes homeless after spending all his money and energy on a grand saga called The Three-Thousand-Body
Well, this was a fairly unusual read for me in this period, I’m more in my sci-fi era, but good things come from good friends who gift you books you wouldn’t have bought: they usually help you discover something cool you didn’t know. What I
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utente anonimo
Posted at 17:36h, 06 Mayvergogna! infierire così su un povero committente pubblico…
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Shelidon
Posted at 19:18h, 06 MayDici?