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numerosi souvenir all'interno
Dec 29, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
Life doesn't last a full hundred years
生年不滿百
But often bears a thousand years' anguish
常懷千歲憂
The day is short, the bitter night is long
晝短苦夜長
Why not take a candle and stroll?
何不秉燭遊
Enjoy yourself while you have time
為樂當及時
How can you wait for next year? 何能待來茲
The foolish like to hoard riches
愚者愛惜費
But those after them will jeer
但為後古嗤
We mortals can't hope to compare
With the deathless Wang Ziqiao
仙人王子喬
難可與等期
Nineteen Old Poems 古詩十九首 (之十五) 2. cent. CE. trans. Julie Sullivan
Jun 25, 2020 40 tweets 26 min read
I've just found in the Net some pictures of a place I've heard about, but actually never seen: the WW1 POW camp near #Nymbruk, Bohemia. I did not even know its name. This is a family story. A thread /1 In 1914 the Austro-Hungarian empire started WW1, Italy was still a neutral country. The Italian/Venetian speaking people from #Trento province (then Tyrol), where draft and sent to fight zarist Russia. This picture is the 1st train leaving Trento to the front line /2