January 2009
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The first professor I saw, was in a very large room, with forty pupils about him. After salutation, observing me to look earnestly upon a frame, which took up the greatest part of both the length and breadth of the room, he said, “Perhaps I might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge, by practical and mechanical operations. But the world would soon be...
La biblioteca di Babele
L’universo (che altri chiama la Biblioteca) si compone d’un numero indefinito, e forse infinito, di gallerie esagonali, con vasti pozzi di ventilazione nel mezzo, bordati di basse ringhiere. Da qualsiasi esagono si vedono i piani superiori e inferiori, interminabilmente. La distribuzione degli oggetti nelle gallerie è invariabile. Venticinque vasti scaffali, in ragione di cinque per...
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Le parapluie
A Camille Oudinot.
Madame Oreille était économe. Elle savait la valeur d’un sou et possédait un arsenal de principes sévères sur la multiplication de l’argent. Sa bonne, assurément, avait grand mal à faire danser l’anse du panier ; et M. Oreille n’obtenait sa monnaie de poche qu’avec une extrême difficulté. Ils étaient à leur aise, pourtant, et sans...
“It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost...”
– Philosophy of Umbrellas
