"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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Ben Okri’s The Famished Road

Azaro is an abiku, a spirit child that sneaks his way into his mother’s womb only to enjoy a brief stay into our world and then die. They’re considered malign spirits and the grief they cause is immense, hence the tradition of scarring the faces

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May 9, 2026 8:00 am
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Snow Country

Sometimes you read a book with beautiful prose and well-constructed characters but, when you put it down, you couldn’t tell the plot if your life depended upon it. Kawabata Yasunari‘s Snow Country is one of these books. Born in 1899, the author won the Nobel

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May 3, 2026 9:00 am
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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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