"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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Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist, essayist, poet, and translator who became the first woman elected to the Académie française in 1980. No, I’m not kidding. Her full name was Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; “Yourcenar” began as a pen

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Anne Michaels is a Toronto‑based Canadian writer who first gained attention as a poet before becoming internationally recognised for her fiction. Her writing is poetic and meditative, blending philosophical reflection on history, trauma, and ethics, and she’s best known for her debut novel Fugitive Pieces

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Ways for an Empire to Become a Ruin

Born Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis in Alexandria in 1863, the poet known as C.P. Cavafy is regarded as the greatest modern Greek poet, though he spent much of his life in the cosmopolitan world of Alexandria. He wrote only about 200 poems, many of them published

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6 Comments
  • 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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