"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."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Povera Patria

Sh: Hai visto, a Roma?
SFé: Sì.
Sh: Questo Paese è allo sfascio. Siamo rovinate.
SFé: L’anno in cui siamo nate è una famosa distopia. Siamo nate rovinate.
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Ruins and Memory

Every text this week has been trying to answer some version of the same question: what, exactly, does a ruined building (or district, or city) owe the people still standing near it, and what do we owe to the ruin itself out of respect for

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August 26, 2026 9:00 am
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The Prison and the Railway Station

We already encountered W.G. Sebald with his The Rings of Saturn, and today I’d like to bring you his last novel, Austerlitz, published in 2001. The story follows a man named Jacques Austerlitz while he slowly uncovers the truth about his origins and his traumatic

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August 25, 2026 6:00 am
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Someone Has to Clean Up

Wisława Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, and translator, born in 1923 and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996 for poetry marked by a sharp, ironic awareness of human life and history. Map: Collected and Last Poems is an English-language volume of Szymborska’s

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August 24, 2026 6:00 am
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  • impbianco
    Posted at 11:12h, 29 April Reply

    …mmm… se non sono indiscreto… che anno sarebbe??? XD

    X-Bye

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 11:14h, 29 April Reply

    a) non si chiede l’età ad una signora

    b) non è che ci voglia Nostradamus :-p

  • ragnorosso
    Posted at 12:41h, 29 April Reply

    io ho capito. vorrei dire dall’alto del mio genio, ma poi qualcuno mi correggerebbe, per cui ammetto che una certa persona mi ha dato un ulteriore indizio. però questa scoperta mi fa sentire più fannullone del solito, uhm..

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 16:51h, 30 April Reply

    So che sembrerà incredibile, ma non era un quiz sulla mia età.

  • ragno62
    Posted at 20:00h, 02 May Reply

    sembra il dialogo fra le statue romane nel medioevo

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 15:17h, 03 May Reply

    Hahaha, è vero.

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