"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."
Tra un’ora e mezza sarò a trascinarmi sotto il sole di Milano per andare ad infilarmi in un’aula bollente a dare (per la diciannovesima volta) l’esame più ostico dell’intero corso di laurea, con il più famigerato professore dell’intero polo universitario. Pensatemi.
Continues from yesterday… ATORRENT of rain held us marooned the next day. Miss Leahy was confined to her room, with a nurse in constant attendance and the house doctor making hourly calls. She was on the verge of a nervous collapse, he told me, crying
I wouldn’t have started this book on my own, and for many reasons. One of them is that in Italy it’s marketed as Young Adult Fiction, and I hate most of that stuff, and the other is its imposing length: 600 pages. I was distracted,
“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
Continues from yesterday… ATORRENT of rain held us marooned the next day. Miss Leahy was confined to her room, with a nurse in constant attendance and the house doctor making hourly calls. She was on the verge of a nervous collapse, he told me, crying
I wouldn’t have started this book on my own, and for many reasons. One of them is that in Italy it’s marketed as Young Adult Fiction, and I hate most of that stuff, and the other is its imposing length: 600 pages. I was distracted,
“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
10 Comments
heraclitus
Posted at 14:17h, 18 Julyormai sarai già andata… in bocca al lupo. ;-)
Shelidon
Posted at 16:56h, 18 JulySono già anche tornata. L’esame di statica è sempre un’esperienza surreale, peccato non avere tempo di parlarne ora. Me lo appunto tra i post da fare venerdì (rabbrividiamo).
ragno62
Posted at 19:25h, 18 Julyspero sia andato bene
heraclitus
Posted at 14:53h, 19 Julycurioso delle surrealtà universitarie…
coaloalab
Posted at 16:19h, 19 JulyChérie, passa a trovarmi.
La vodka fredda è sempre lì ad aspettarti!
Che freddo!
contenebbia
Posted at 17:04h, 19 JulyAttendiam trepidanti il post rivelatore, allora, my dear.
venturo
Posted at 17:16h, 19 JulyAh come ti capisco…in bocca ai lupi! (‘che all’università ce ne sono tanti).
Shelidon
Posted at 19:34h, 19 JulyScusate se vi ho fatto attendere. Sono un po’ cotta… mi sa che tra poco vado a dormire.
Shelidon
Posted at 07:20h, 02 AugustFletto i muscoli e sono architetto
[..] Ovvero, per laurearsi occorre avere poteri cosmici e anche qualcosa in più. Era una notte buia e tempestosa e avevo promesso a Lui che l’avrei accompagnato al concerto dei (altra storia) così, a una tavola dall’agognato traguardo di ter [..]
Shelidon
Posted at 07:20h, 02 AugustFletto i muscoli e sono architetto
[..] Ovvero, per laurearsi occorre avere poteri cosmici e anche qualcosa in più. Era una notte buia e tempestosa e avevo promesso a Lui che l’avrei accompagnato al concerto dei (altra storia) così, a una tavola dall’agognato traguardo di ter [..]