Care amiche e cari amici, durante l’estate il blog seguirà un ritmo più lento: pubblicherò meno post e potrei non riuscire a rispondere subito ai commenti o a commentare tempestivamente. Vi auguro di cuore una splendida estate e buone vacanze a tutti! Dear friends, during the summer the blog will be updated at a slower… Read More Buone vacanze 🌞⛵
Il nuovo gioco linguistico proposto questa settimana gioca sugli anagrammi perfetti o parziali (vedere Eletta Senso: qui).Utilizzando un nome di persona dobbiamo creare un testo che contenga i anagrammi, perfetti o imperfetti. Io ho giocato con il mio nome, che appare in vari arrangiamenti, anche parziali, nel testo seguente: LUISA SAI LUISALA vita è USurAnteSAtUra… Read More Anagrams ↔️ Ars Magna
Karl Raimund Popper ( 28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian British philosopher of science whose work reshaped how we think about knowledge and discovery. Rejecting the idea that science proceeds by accumulating confirmatory instances, Popper argued instead that theories advance only by surviving rigorous attempts at refutation. His philosophy of critical… Read More Karl Popper and the Art of Critical Thinking
On 26 July 1856, George Bernard Shaw, the incomparable Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist, was born. Over the course of his long career he wrote more than sixty plays, blending razor sharp satire with rich historical allegory. Among his best known works are Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923).… Read More George Bernard Shaw
I thank J. Re Crivello for republishing this old article of mine on Masticadores – LatinosUSA: English edition Ringrazio J. Re Crivello per aver riproposto questo mio vecchio articolo, di cui ora fornisco anche la versione in italiano: “Gli ammutinati del Bounty” – il film storico-drammatico americano del 1962 con Marlon Brando – e “Il… Read More HMS Bounty
La proposta di questa settimana è un Lipogramma in Ⓔ (vedere Eletta Senso: qui), cioè un testo in cui non deve mai comparire una determinata lettera. Oggi si deve comporre qualcosa senza la vocale E di Estate. Ecco il mio raccontino: Quando il topolino anziano 🐭 avvistò il gatto in agguato urlò subito, avvisando gli… Read More Lipogramma in Ⓔ
July 17 was World Emoji Day, so called because the “calendar” emoji on most platforms shows “July 17.” First celebrated in 2014, it highlights how these tiny pictograms have transformed the way we communicate online. Created in 1999 by Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita, emojis add emotion, nuance and personality to otherwise flat text messages. Beyond mere decoration,… Read More World Emoji Day 🗓️
Matins Unreachable father, when we were firstexiled from heaven, you madea replica, a place in one sensedifferent from heaven, beingdesigned to teach a lesson: otherwisethe same — beauty on either side, beautywithout alternative — Exceptwe didn’t know what was the lesson. Left alone,we exhausted each other. Yearsof darkness followed; we took turnsworking the garden, the… Read More Louise Glück: Matins/Mattutino (oggi su Neobar)
English Victorian novelist and illustrator William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, on 18 July 1811, and died in 1863.He is best known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair (1847–1848), a panoramic portrait of British society, and The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), which was later adapted into a 1975 film by Stanley… Read More William Makepeace Thackeray
Jane Birkin (1946 – 16 July 2023) She was one of the most photographed women of the sixties, an actress, singer, and designer. She began her acting career with a minor role in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blowup” (1966), in which she appeared, shockingly (for the time), bare breasted. Due anni senza Jane Jane Birkin (1946 – 16 luglio 2023) È… Read More Two years without Jane
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