Running an independent blog in 2026, in the midst of a tap-tap world, seems like a geometric contradiction. Science—or at least the marketers who sell it that way—tells us that the average human attention span has fallen below that of a goldfish. If a TikTok video doesn't show a guy doing something...
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I could go back in time. Not to change anything—I'm not that presumptuous—but to take notes. This is one of those posts. We're in Padua, the first Sunday in May 1326. The city is in the hands of Marsilio da Carrara, Cangrande della Scala blows on…
Women are wonderful beings. Late women, moreover, are capable of manifesting powers that defy the laws of known physics, and probably even some yet to be discovered. They pass you on the freeway at gravitational detachment speeds—that threshold beyond which time slows down and matter behaves nondeterministically…
There's a line Laura wrote that I can't get out of my head. "Do you know how long it takes for a cover to dry? You don't know. There's no timer." I could have written it. Word for word. Except I'm not talking about covers—I'm talking about certain musical passages that you can't rush,…
I've always liked the smell of wet asphalt. It smells like a respite. That evening, however, there was something strange in the air: a hint of metallic ozone, as if lightning had been stuck between the buildings on the outskirts of town and was slowly decaying. I saw it near the highway pylon, slumped against the peeling concrete. At first...
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