"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."

Rimpianto esistenziale

La striscia di oggi del Filobosco mi fa tornare alla mente uno dei grandi rimpianti della mia infanzia. Non aver mai avuto una paperella con cui fare il bagno. La prossima ricorrenza è Natale: chi rimedia?

Fotografia di Thomas Breakwelt


PS: i piani procedono per metà, sto studiando Teoria e Progetto di Costruzioni e Strutture 2 ma mentirei se dicessi che sto capendo tutto…

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Spooktober 25 – The Phantom Farm House (2)

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Alix Harrow’s The Once and Future Witches

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Spooktober 24 – The Phantom Farm House (1)

“The Phantom Farmhouse” is a short story written by Seabury Quinn, first published in the October 1923 issue of Weird Tales. It is one of Quinn’s most famous standalone works outside of his popular Jules de Grandin detective series. I had been at the new

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9 Comments
  • Njord
    Posted at 07:17h, 10 July Reply

    Mha, al più io posso rimediare lo scopettone per il pupazzo di neve…o, forse, la crota per il naso

    :-P

  • babilonia61
    Posted at 20:16h, 10 July Reply

    …poco a poco l’acqua del sapere va al mare, ad abbeverare il futuro, poco a poco, raggiungerai le mete, basta solo lavorare piacevolmente

    felicità

    …

    Rino

  • Conigliolo
    Posted at 02:06h, 11 July Reply

    io ho ben due paperelle inutilizzate.

    Intravedo una soluzione

  • HowlingWolf
    Posted at 08:07h, 11 July Reply

    Devo comprarne una per la lupacchiotta (ed una per me, che vivo il tuo stesso dramma), possiamo organizzarci!

  • Damiani
    Posted at 10:58h, 11 July Reply

    dai che ce la fai!!!

  • heraclitus
    Posted at 06:59h, 12 July Reply

    questo sogno mi sembra decisamente realizzabile.

    bene. ;-)

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 10:51h, 12 July Reply

    E’ sempre bello avervi tutti vicini, sono commossa. Grazie Heraclitus, Damiani e Rino. Njord, tieniti in standby per la prossima nevicata. Lupo, sono contenta che finalmente il tuo dramma stia per avere fine. E dulcis in fundo, prode Conigliolo sei la mia salvezza: riesci a postarmene una qui, che uso le mie facoltà transustanziatrici? :-p

  • Conigliolo
    Posted at 20:58h, 12 July Reply

    Te la posterò, non dubitare!

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 22:13h, 12 July Reply

    Mio eroe

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