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A Short Translation from Italo Calvino's Il castello dei destini incrociati

I came across an English version of this book many years ago, published by Picador. I must still have it somewhere. As a homage to Calvino, one of the authors I most admire, I tried this short
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Mar 16 - 2 min. read

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On Short Novels, Film, and Old TV Memories

After finishing her novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, I finally did my homework regarding its author, Shirley Jackson. At first her name didn't ring a bell, but later on I noticed she was
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Mar 11 - 1 min. read

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(Late) February Reading

Last week, I began reading a short novel from the beginning of the Sixties, by a US author. It's funny how I'm getting a good deal of useful tips about literature on Twitter lately--not in a few
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Mar 2 - 1 min. read

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A Short Translation from Furio Jesi's "Cultura di destra"

"What does it mean, right-wing culture?", an interviewer asked Furio Jesi in 1979. It is "this culture in which the past is a sort of homogenized porridge that can be fashioned in the most convenient
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Feb 14 - 2 min. read

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DeepSeek to the Rescue

Today, I wanted to post a short line on Twitter. Someone had asked which was the last book other users had read about a particular topic, and as I casually happen to be reading a book connected to
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Feb 6 - 1 min. read

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Retirement Ceremony for the "Machine" in Japan

I just spotted this on Twitter. Not sure how common this is in Japan, but this short video shows a farewell ceremony they give to a machine about to be retired after years of service at a factory.
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Jan 31 - 1 min. read

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New Words: 'moat'

I just came across this word in a tweet. This guy (some David Shapiro, who looks like a tech buff or something) was sharing some thoughts about AI, and the supposed imminent arrival of so-called AGI
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Jan 17 - 2 min. read

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Des montgolfières extrême-orientaux

Hélène, une amie de maintes années, est allée en Cambodge. Aujourd'hui, à l’aube (le décalage horaire est sensible), j'ai reçu les photos d'un voyage qu'elle a fait en montgolfière. Elle dit que
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Jan 12 - 1 min. read

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December Readings

I almost finished now It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, a short novel by Anne de Marcken. It's a pretty disturbing book I got a hint of on Twitter a few weeks ago. I came across these two guys on
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Dec 30 - 2 min. read

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Fancy Christmas Cards

Last week, my friend Jorge came to me asking for help regarding Christmas cards. You know, Jorge's wife runs an import-export office: they take care of the custom's procedures —goods' description and
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Dec 22 - 1 min. read

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Random Incidents on the Beach

Today Bimba, my rescue dog, almost excised my middle finger. Well, wait, I'm overdoing things, as usual. However, we were playing on the beach, and at a certain point the rubber ball I threw for her
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Nov 28 - 1 min. read

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A Short Translation

The realism that follows each flood has opened my eyes: at this point, Europe is a stage devoid of characters. Everybody's vanished: the bearded men, the melodramatic larger-than-life fathers, the
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Nov 23 - 1 min. read

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Esercizio I

Oggi ho cominciato a leggere un libro in italiano. Sebbene potrei leggerlo in inglese (il che sarebbe piuttosto logico, visto che le citazioni sembrano essere tradotte maggiormente da questa lingua),
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Nov 11 - 1 min. read

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A Quote I Recently Came Across by Accident

One day, Einstein told me that he was seriously concerned about the problem of the Now. He said that the Now experience has a particular meaning for human beings, something essentially different from
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Nov 4 - 2 min. read

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A Short Translation

Corinto couldn't bear the middle class. He said: "When we are in power, a selection will be mandatory. Someone will come over and say that he wants to be an accountant. 'So,' I'll say, 'you want to
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Oct 21 - 2 min. read

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The Vast of Night

A few days ago I saw The Vast of Night again. It is something of a cult movie released back in 2019. I classify it as cult mainly because of the effect it had on me —with its funny indie mixture of
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Oct 7 - 2 min. read

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A Short Translation from Una excursión a los indios ranqueles (A Visit to the Ranquel Indians)

At 25, we are the prey to much silly ceremony. Lacking white gloves as cool as a lettuce, is a severe setback, and can be the cause for the handsomest lad to not marrying. Not a few are those who
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Sep 17 - 2 min. read

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A Few Idioms: To Stop Short

Today I think I learnt what stopping short means. You know, I came across this reel on Facebook with an excerpt of Seinfeld. It shows a scene where George's father is furious with Kramer and wants to
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Sep 14 - 1 min. read

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Declassified Files Reveal First Landing on the Moon Took Place Before Commonly Attested

Not many people know that back in the 1960's The Beatles were invited by NASA to land on the Moon. In 1966--that is, a few years before Armstrong and Aldrin's momentous feat--Wernher von Braun
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Sep 10 - 1 min. read

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Reading Sabato

A few days ago, lostintranslation's posts about El túnel worked as a spur for my reading the novel again. The thing is that rereading literature that for some reason or other was important to you
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Sep 3 - 1 min. read

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