Albumleaf 209: June 20, 2025 8Bologna)

“La carta Vincente” (“The winning card”) is inspired by a leitmotif in Stefano Massini’s Lehman Trilogy in which a dwarf shows onlookers a card, places it face down on a table with two other cards, maneuvers all three extremely rapidly, and then invites onlookers to identify the position of the previously shown card. 

Albumleaf 207: June 17, 2025 (Bologna)

To-night Auda was guide and to make us sure of him he lifted up his voice in an interminable “ho, ho, ho” song of the Howeitat; an epic chanted on three bass notes, up and down, back and forward, in so round a voice that the words were indistinguishable.  After a little, we thanked him for the singing, since the path went away to the left, and our long line followed his turn by the echoes of his voice rolling about the torn black clouds in the moonlight.

From Seven Pillars of Wisdom, p. 224 (Chapter XL)

T.E. Lawrence

Albumleaf 205: May 24, 2025 (Bologna)

Albumleaf 203: December 20, 2024 (Bologna)

Albumleaf 201: June 1, 2023 (Bologna)