Forever
Alice: “How long is forever?”White Rabbit: “Sometimes, just one second.” Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland” Alice: “Per quanto tempo è per sempre?”Bianconiglio: “A volte, solo un secondo”
Month: August 2021
Mary Shelley’s Stanzas
English Romantic writer Mary Shelley was born on 30 August 1797, in London.Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft, who died in childbirthMary Shelley is famous for her “Frankenstein”, published when she was 21. None of her works published later matched the power… Read More Mary Shelley’s Stanzas
Il cigno 🦢
Il candido cigno del Larioè un uccello straordinarionuota maestoso nell’acqua blue poi a volte si immerge all’ingiù perché al cigno errabondopiace scoprire l’altro mondoe quand’è stanco di quello di fuoriguarda sotto in cerca di tesori. Allora immerge la sua mole superbalasciando emergere solo le tergae il papero che passa curiososi chiede cosa sia quell’oggetto misterioso… Read More Il cigno 🦢
The Common Cormorant
“People One Ought To Know” was the first book Christopher Isherwood (see here) ever wrote, in 1928, a collection of nonsense verses about animals, in the tradition of Edward Lear. It was done in collaboration with a child he was tutoring. At the time he was living with prominent musician André Mangeot, and working as… Read More The Common Cormorant
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood was an English-American novelist, who was born on 26 August 1904. He was W. H. Auden’s literary mentor and partner in an intermittent, casual liaison, and collaborated with him on some works. Through Auden, Isherwood met Stephen Spender, with whom he later spent a lot of time in Germany (He had gone to… Read More Christopher Isherwood
26 agosto: Giornata mondiale del cane🐩
Sissi e I suoi approcci all’acqua del lago August 26: International Dog Day Sissi and her approaches to the lake water
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
American animator and cartoonist Walt Kelly was born on 25 August 1913.He is famous for the comic strip Pogo, created in 1945, which followed the adventures of its funny animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.The strip, written for both children and adults, became his platform for social, political and philosophical commentary. Here are… Read More “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
una pietra è rotolata in cielo… r.i.p. Charlie Watts 🖤
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“To the Virgins…”
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” is a poem written by English Cavalier poet Robert Herrick, who was baptized on 24 August 1591. Herrick is best known for his “Hesperides”, a collection of 1200 of lyrical poems published in 1648. In Greek mythology the Hesperides are nymphs of the evening.The book includes “To… Read More “To the Virgins…”
Fate
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Edgar Lee Masters (born in Kansas on 23 August 1868), the author of the “Spoon River Anthology”, a collection of 245 free-verse epitaphs in the form of monologues coming from the mouth of the dead buried in their graves. Lyman King You may think, passer-by, that FateIs… Read More Fate
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