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On The Bright Side
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Homeward Bound
A potted history of Odysseus's tribulations.
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Home, Sweet Home
An unwanted cuckoo.
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Old Age
The logical inevitability.
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I have to come clean, Rachel,
Posted on Tue, 05 May 2020
I have to come clean, Rachel, and reveal that it was something you said in one of your comments that gave me the idea for this circumlocutory piece . I am not only like a squirrel but also as a thieving magpie: I tend to borrow or steal from...
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A very poignant viewpoint
Posted on Sun, 03 May 2020
A very poignant viewpoint expressed with your usual verve. Mathematics of loneliness is just perfect.
Luigi x
Read full commentPosted in Distance
Yes Claudine, even in those
Posted on Wed, 29 Apr 2020
Yes Claudine, even in those days, when Italy was not an unified country but an amalgam of independent states and foreign powers, Milan was a busy commercial city. But what aggravated the situation was that, as a result of troop movements...
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Hi Rhiannon.
Posted on Wed, 29 Apr 2020
Hi Rhiannon.
Read full commentYou are absolutely right. The fragility of the current situation mirrors that experienced by the victims of that 1630 pandemic. Although the general assumption is that history teaches us to recognise our mistakes and learn from...
Posted in The Great Plague of Milan
Hello again Rachel.
Posted on Sun, 26 Apr 2020
Hello again Rachel.
I replied to your query about half an hour ago but lately I noticed that notications reach my inbox long after the comments itself. I don't know if it is a general problem.
Best, Luigi x
Read full commentPosted in The Trouble With Breathing
Hi Rachel.
Posted on Sun, 26 Apr 2020
Hi Rachel.
Read full commentWe haven't yet established if it is a frog or a toad at the bottom of her garden.
As far as writing goes I just do it on impulse, as and when the Muse strikes. Having decided on a topic I start scribbling and see how it...
Posted in Kissing Frogs
A very clever imagery of the
Posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2020
A very clever imagery of the white-coated swan as a doctor and the related reference to the virus. Truly apposite to the current situation.
Luigi x
Read full commentPosted in I Want To Tell You Things
A fascinating disquisition
Posted on Sun, 19 Apr 2020
A fascinating disquisition about a tree of which I knew nothing about apart from its association with gin and one you have expressed with your usual eloquence.
Read full commentI am much more enlightened now that you have revealed that it too feels the...
Posted in Juniper Tree
An interesting and revealing
Posted on Fri, 17 Apr 2020
An interesting and revealing poem about the the physiological adaptation of those hypogean creatures, the blind cave fish, to darkness which revives memories of one's own metamorphosis.
Stylish as ever.
Luigi x
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Hi Rachel, so glad you
Posted on Mon, 13 Apr 2020
Hi Rachel, so glad you followed up my suggestion to write on "And yet it moves" and produced another magnificent piece.
I am chuffed by the dedication, thanks.
Luigi x
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