"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

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Roba che al confronto Sodoma e Gomorra sono state una scampagnata
e il Diluvio Universale un piacevole diversivo.
architecture, engineering and construction

The Answer’s in Your Model (and yet, it might be wrong)

A few weeks ago, in one of those happy convergences of life, I was reading an Italian essay on Italo Calvino and artificial intelligence (I wrote about it here), and there’s a very interesting set of passages that have to do with our contemporary obsession

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September 16, 2026 9:00 am
movies and tv

The End of Oak Street

By the life of me, I don’t understand how’s possible that this movie was ever cleared for production. The concept is simple, and shamefully Stephen King-esque: a portion of a small suburban town gets teleported into a not particularly well-defined “age of dinosaurs,” and the

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September 14, 2026 9:00 am
books and literature

Susanna Clarke’s The Ladies of Grace Adieau

I had forgotten how much I was bored by Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, but I trust I’ll like other stuff by the same author and, before tackling Piranesi, I decided to finally approach this one. Not remembering these are spin-off stories from Jonathan

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September 13, 2026 9:00 am
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3 Comments
  • Njord
    Posted at 07:39h, 01 April Reply

    miglior paragone non poteva esserci, BRAVA!!! …come sempre

  • HowlingWolf
    Posted at 08:37h, 01 April Reply

    Allora non sono l’unico a vedere la cosa con malcelato pessimismo!

  • heraclitus
    Posted at 07:49h, 06 April Reply

    l’avete voluta e mo ve la tenete…

    mi dispiace per voi… ;-)

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