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…and that’s a wrap! Eighteen classic stories, if my math is correct, 29 posts, and the candle’s waning. It’s almost time. Are you all set up? Who are you celebrating with, and what are you dressed up as? Whether it’s true crime or contemporary politicians

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Bulgakov’s The Fatal Eggs

Mikhail Bulgakov (Kyiv, 1891–1940) was a novelist, playwright, and former physician, whom I’m sure you know for The Master and Margarita, published posthumously. His work blends sharp satire, fantasy, grotesque comedy, and moral seriousness, often targeting Soviet bureaucracy and ideological hypocrisy, but I had no

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Spooktober 30 – The Black Monk (5)

Conclusion Kovrin received a professorship at the University. The inaugural address was fixed for the second of December, and a notice to that effect was hung up in the corridor at the University. But on the day appointed he informed the students’ inspector, by telegram,

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6 Comments
  • ragnorosso
    Posted at 13:35h, 28 June Reply

    guarda, i primi due mi sembrano belli pallosi (più che altro per il vecchio principio “acclamato dalla critica=pizzoso”), il 4° che è? un film su quelle z***ole che facevano il telefilm? insomma alla fine resta il 3° che penso sia pure il migliore

  • impbianco
    Posted at 15:08h, 28 June Reply

    … è morto Michael Turner… l’ho appena letto su Comicus… comunque io non vedrei nessuno di quei film, vediti Hulk!

    X-Bye

  • Damiani
    Posted at 15:48h, 28 June Reply

    il Divo!!!

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 17:30h, 29 June Reply

    @ ragno: caspita, che metro di giudizio oggettivo e ponderato! Alla fine siamo andati a vedere proprio quello: una boiata atroce.

    @ impbianco: Hulk neanche morta. Riguardo alla brutta notizia, l’ho saputo: un duro colpo.

    @ Damiani: purtroppo i miei compagni di cinema l’avevano già visto.

  • contenebbia
    Posted at 15:46h, 03 July Reply

    Quando hai di codesto dubbi, mon tresor, bussa ai cancelli di Carfax!

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 15:59h, 03 July Reply

    Caro Conte, avete proprio ragione: scelte così da sola non ne devo più fare.

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