"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."

Voglio vederti danzare

…come le zingare del deserto
con candelabri in testa
o come le balinesi nei giorni di festa
…come i Dervisches Tourners
che girano sulle spine dorsali
o al suono di cavigliere del Katakali
 

music and theatre

Suzanne Vega in Milan

Yesterday, we went to see Suzanne Vega, one of the greatest artists and musicians of all times whom occupies a special place in my heart next to Tori Amos. It was a packed house at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi here in Milan, with people belonging to

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books and literature

Isaac Asimov’s Gold (and other stories)

It’s unfortunate that I’m coming to this after the very unsatisfactory collection of “fantasy” stories (Asimov never wrote fantasy: he wrote satire), because this was another disappointment. The book is half short stories and half non-fiction, for random reasons, and the non-fiction half is random writings

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books and literature

The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol + Exit Strategy

I’m not crying: a piece of some murdering bot must have gotten in my eye. Rogue Protocol is the third novella in the Murderbot Diaries, and deals with the titular character going deep undercover to figure out what happened in the “mining incident” that was

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7 Comments
  • contenebbia
    Posted at 13:57h, 31 July Reply

    Ti adoro, quasi quanto questa canzone di battiato, a cui son terribilmente legato! Che bell’omaggio, degno del tuo innato senso del Bello!

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 14:30h, 31 July Reply

    Conte, mi fate arrossire.

    Anch’io adoro quella canzone, con quella sua capacità di evocare immagini affascinanti che spesso ha Battiato…

  • coaloalab
    Posted at 14:38h, 31 July Reply

    Non vi lascio soli!

  • heraclitus
    Posted at 06:51h, 01 August Reply

    sarebbe un ottimo spettacolo.

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 11:46h, 01 August Reply

    @ Robert: mi dispiacerebbe il contrario!

    @ Heraclitus: credo anch’io

  • utente anonimo
    Posted at 15:34h, 01 August Reply

    Battiato è diventato uno degli artisti preferiti della mia dolce metà, che in Italia ha fatto incetta dei suoi dischi… E complimenti per la splendida immagine!

    Raffaella dagli USA

    P.S. Sto per finire HP 7… A presto i miei commenti!

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 16:36h, 01 August Reply

    Carissima, sono veramente ansiosa di conoscere i tuoi commenti!

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