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My Nanny and the Leg’s Funeral

My Nanny and the Leg’s Funeral

My nanny, Antonia, was as ugly as was lovely and intelligent. I can assure you she was extraordinarily brilliant and had a heart of gold. In her later years, she lived in a respectable home for older people, where strange things sometimes occurred. I often visited,...

An American Waitress

That was the night! I invited Sarah, my longtime partner, to a quaint fancy restaurant in Fells Point, Baltimore. A young, good-looking waitress soon popped up, saying, “Hi, I’m Judith; how are you tonight?” If she were really interested, I would have given her a...

The Statue of Liberty: an Old-Aged Woman

Emma Lazarus’s verses, filled with hope and mercy, are engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York. The poet wrote when the “land of the free” was the dream of many enslaved European peasants. Not coincidentally, the monument represents a woman pleading...
Dopo l’Antropocene

Dopo l’Antropocene

Uno scenario meraviglioso per la Terra, dopo la catastrofe ambientale Nei prossimi due secoli, grazie a tre eventi catastrofici la Terra si rigenererà e la breve fase dell’Anthropocene sarà superata. Nella nuova era ci sarà spazio anche per la specie umana, che...
La statua della libertà

La statua della libertà

Alla base della famosa Statua della Libertà a New York vi sono incisi i versi di Emma Lazarus pregni di speranza e misericordia. La poetessa li scrisse quando l’America era il sogno di una libertà ancora sconosciuta in Europa. E forse non a caso la Statua della...