Mi sono di recente avvicinata alla serie di romanzi gialli di Seishi Yokomizo pubblicati in Italia da Sellerio e che hanno come protagonista Kōsuke Kindaichi, un detective estremamente popolare in Giappone. Ora, indipendentemente dalla qualità dei romanzi, la peculiarità è che in Italia è davvero difficile capire la sequenza in cui sono stati scritti i […]
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter V: The Pact with Satan Thibault stopped short on the threshold, overcome with astonishment at this re-apparition. “I was saying,” began the wolf, as if nothing had happened to interrupt the conversation, “that it is out of my power to grant you the accomplishment of all the […]
Dark and gloomy grew the kingdom of the gnomes in proportion as the light of each individual inhabitant decreased. Many who formerly were like luminous spheres, shedding radiant rays to a considerable distance, now became like dim will-o’-the-wisps, or merely phosphorescent dots or firebugs. As the general darkness increased, the glow that came from the […]
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter IV: The Black Wolf Thibault’s first thought was to get himself some supper, for he was terribly tired. The past day had been an eventful one for him, and certain things that had happened were evidently enough to produce a craving for food. His supper, it must […]
Chapter 7 I was now tolerably well satisfied. From the abject state of a nobody, existing only as a “subject” for scientific observation, looked upon as a hobgoblin, and doomed to vivisection prisoner of a jumping-jack, I had suddenly become somebody of importance, owing to my cleverness and to the credulity of the king. I […]
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter III: Agnelette The Baron took the weapon which Engoulevent handed him, and deliberately examined the boar-spear from point to handle, without saying a word. On the handle had been carved a little wooden shoe, which had served as Thibault’s device while making the tour of France, as thereby […]
Last week, I talked about Herbert James Draper and featured his painting A Water Baby. Today’s feature is another one of his works, called The Water Nixie from 1908, sometimes called The Water Nymph. The painting shares the title with a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 79 from Hanau in Hesse, […]
Nel gennaio 2025 è stata pubblicata una nuova versione ISO 56000 sulla gestione dell’innovazione o, meglio, della prima parte della serie ovvero quella dedicata alla definizione dei concetti chiave e alla terminologia. Questa ISO è una norma relativamente giovane, la cui versione precedente risaleva al 2020, e che fa da preambolo e contestualizzazione per altre […]
Chapter 6 Adalga, like all the rest of the gnomes, was a spirit, in the same sense as we are spirits ourselves; the term “spirit” implying a centre of consciousness or intelligence, irrespective as to whether the form in which that spiritual power or energy dwells is visible to somebody or everybody or nobody. In […]
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter II: The Seigneur Jean and the Sabot-Maker As already said, the buck began to dodge and double on reaching Oigny, turning and twisting around Thibault’s hut. The weather was fine, although autumn was well advanced, and the shoemaker was sitting at his work in his open lean-to. Looking […]