Thursday, April 25, 2024 14:40

Empathy

August 27th, 2015

It happens sometimes to me to witness scenes of life over which you wish the curtain would never fall, or – if I was an ignorant – to not have witnessed them at all, to not see, to not hear, to not to feel, to not anything.… [...]

Half poison, half goddess

August 24th, 2015

Sir, whoever you are, save me! Deliver me from this person!
-A person so wonderful?
-A Demon, sir!… You say she is a beautiful creature … Rather, this person, for you will be henceforth a feared enemy… If you’ll meet her again , flee… If your fate will ever bring you around her, do not accept anything that will give you…
Fear the glass of water that you she will offer, the fruit of which she will bite half and give you the other half, or the jewel that she would offer you, asking you to accept it!… [...]

Pills of August

August 23rd, 2015

I missed my pills! Not the colorful sort that is to be taken out by the fist, for all sorts of illnesses that granny suffers of, but the kind that are downright and downleft wonderful for the trembling of the soul and shriveling of the skin.… [...]

Regrets

August 22nd, 2015

In the beginning was the end.

-Are you all right, my Lady?
-I am dead, Sir…

I walked today in the cemetery, I like to sit on a corner of marble, to read the names and dates, to dream before the faded medallion depicting a young soldier fallen on the battlefield, the beautiful Daniela dead at birth or the baby in laces.… [...]