🅂 🄴 🅃 🅃 🄴 🄼 🄱 🅁 🄴 La nostra amica Eletta Senso – autrice del blog Inchiostronerodenso – dopo la pausa estiva ha ripreso i suoi giochi linguistici, con ben due proposte. La prima è un acrostico sulla parola SETTEMBRE.Ecco il mio apporto: Svanita è l’afaE graditeTornano le dolci brezze.Tinte calde dipingonoEffetti briosi… Read More Acrostico 🔤
➡️First part➡️Second part➡️Third part➡️ Fourth part➡️ Fifth part In the early 1940s, when Walt Disney’s daughters fell in love with the book “Mary Poppins”, their father promised them he would adapt the enchanting story into an enchanting movie.Disney spent the next 20 years trying to keep the promise made to his daughters and purchase the… Read More P.L. Travers & Walt Disney (final part)
➡️First part➡️Second part➡️Third part➡️ Fourth part In the cottage shared with her partner Madge Burnand, Pamela Travers succumbed to a bout of pleurisy in the winter of 1933. It was during her recovery that she began writing “Mary Poppins”, a character that had already appeared in a 1926 short story.The secluded life in the countryside… Read More P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins’ Mother (5)
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. “ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – German novelist, dramatist, poet, and philosopher (28 August 1749-1832) “Molte persone non si prendono cura dei loro soldi finché non arrivano quasi alla… Read More Caring for Money & Time
➡️First part➡️Second part➡️Third part In 1939, just four years after the death of Æ (poet George William Russell, editor of the Irish Statesman, the leading literary newspaper of the nascent Irish Free State, her mentor, and more) as she approached forty, Pamela Travers decided that she wanted a child. But not just any baby, it… Read More P.L. Travers: Camillus’ Mother (4)
➡️ First part➡️ Second part Pamela Lyndon Travers, who shortened her name to P.L. Travers because it sounded more masculine – or at least, gender-neutral, emigrated to England in 1924, and claimed to have arrived in London with only £10 in her pocket, Actually, she was supported by her wealthy aunts and she could afford… Read More P.L. Travers: The Partner (3)
Oggi, venticinque agosto, ho appena iniziato a leggere il romanzo di Milena Milani “La ragazza di nome Giulio” uscito nel 1964 e subito sequestrato per oltraggio al pudore,L’autrice fu sottoposta ad un processo per oscenità e venne condannata a sei mesi di reclusione. Negli anni successivi però la sentenza fu ribaltata perché al romanzo vennero… Read More Il venticinque agosto/The Twenty-fifth of August
Jorge Luis Borges (born on 24 August 1899 ) was an Argentine writer.Best known for his short stories and fictive essays, he was also a poet, critic, translator and man of letters. La lunaHay tanta soledad en ese oro.La luna de las noches no es la lunaQue vio el primer Adán. Los largos siglosDe la… Read More Borges & Solitude
“If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.” “A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.” Will Cuppy, journalist (born on 23 August 1884-1949)He was an… Read More Animals
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Dorothy Parker, one of the most famous American writers of the twentieth century, born on 22 August 1893.She wrote poems, short stories writer, articles for newspapers, best known for her spirit and her caustic comments on urban phenomena and foibles of the timeShe published about 300 poems… Read More Birthday Inventory
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