Back in the Seventies, my high school friend Andy called me up and said his dad would take us for an airplane ride. Right now! His father LeRoy was a damned impressive man. A security guard at the local prison, he was tall and broad, with a Louisiana accent and a Roman nose that could open beer bottles. I watched as it got smaller and smaller and then it was gone. Forty minutes later it was my turn.

Videmus nunc per speculum et in aenigmate. Quanto è difficile creare qualcosa da 0, senza direttive, con solo una vaga idea del risultato finale. E tu, a 26 anni e con i tuoi due amici cazzari e le tue due Tennents in circolo, non capisci CHE CI SEI ENTRATO A FARE NEL LOCALE DI TENDENZA. Il profumatore per auto definitivo. Pochi giorni fa il mirabile Zerocalcare.

The point of this blog is to highlight bits of culture that are overlooked, underrated, or simply not talked about very much. Mostly books, but I will also cover films, television, painting, soap opera, and poetry. I may sometimes depart from this brief and do reappraisals of familiar books, films, and TV programmes. Wednesday, 13 July 2016. The selkie in literature and film. The selkie in literature and film. The Lady from the Sea.