"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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Sono una povera illusa anche questa volta.
Almeno si è avuto il buon gusto di scoprirlo prima del solito.

A qualcuno serve un cappello da strega?

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Memoirs of Hadrian

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 23:02h, 02 October Reply

    Il tuo blog mi piace veramente molto! è bellissimo! l’ho già messo nei links del mio!

    X-Bye

  • heraclitus
    Posted at 08:13h, 03 October Reply

    problemi di feste? o peggio?

  • contenebbia
    Posted at 17:19h, 03 October Reply

    Che succede alla mia blogger-esteta preferita? Se qualcuno t’ha deluso o fatto soffrire, peste lo colga!!! Il più dolce degli abbracci, Shelidon

  • Damiani
    Posted at 19:44h, 03 October Reply

    mi unisco all’imperativo del Conte cara Shelidon!

  • ragno62
    Posted at 19:49h, 03 October Reply

    mi unisco anch’ io

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 08:09h, 04 October Reply

    Problemi di feste, problemi di feste. Una maledizione grava sul mio Ognissanti, e mai che riesca ad aspettare il Grande Cocomero nell’orto dei cocomeri…

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