"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."

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S.S. Van Dine’s The Scarab Murder

S.S. Van Dine was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), an art critic, editor, and novelist from the US who created Philo Vance, apparently one of the defining amateur detectives of the Golden Age of detective fiction. The Vance series ran to twelve

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books and literature

Classic Science Fiction Stories

This is the third collection I read from these charming little light-blue books with the golden pages, and they’re uneven at best. Once again, as such, I have mixed feelings about this collection and I’ll have to proceed scientifically to give a rating, so here

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architecture, engineering and construction

Artificial Integrity in the Age of Anxiety

In 1947, British-American poet W.H. Auden published The Age of Anxiety, a long poem subtitled “A Baroque Eclogue”. In a nutshell, four strangers meet in a bar on Third Avenue in Manhattan, on All Souls’ Night, so it’s even seasonal, in the middle of a

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5 Comments
  • heraclitus
    Posted at 11:00h, 09 June Reply

    sempre grazie di regalarci queste splendide visioni.

  • fumoffufumo
    Posted at 11:48h, 09 June Reply

    ti piace molto l’arte vero? io ultimamente l’ho lasciata un pò da parte…ma conto di ritornarci! riguardo ad orgoglio e pregiudizio…se vuoi saperne di più guarda il dvd originale, ci sono molte curiosità interessanti sul film…

  • venturo
    Posted at 13:15h, 09 June Reply

    Fortuna che qualcuno ogni tanto ci ricorda queste opere…

    Ciao

  • babilonia61
    Posted at 17:38h, 09 June Reply

    …quando colori, chiaroscuri, sentimenti si mescolano armonicamente…

    Bella scelta, complimenti.

    Felicità

    Rino, amante dell’arte.

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 09:41h, 10 June Reply

    Sono felice che Waterhouse riscuota sempre i vostri consensi: ho postato l’immagine più che altro per celebrare un momento di vita quotidiana (vedi categoria del post), ma adoro il modo in cui Waterhouse ha reso i capelli della driade, che si staccano dall’albero, il suo passo mentre esce dal cavo del tronco, il suo sguardo verso il basso sul satiro che sta suonando, uno sguardo a metà tra il sorpreso e il compiaciuto, ma sempre con una delicata noncuranza di fondo. Meraviglioso.

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