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In complete agreement with the author of this blog, who generously shared his fabulous collection of old maps and city views of Genova.

I’ve been poking at the base of a certain old house...


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This short story, entitled The Tick (1922), by the émigré writer Sasha Chorny, is set in a resort in Nervi, Genova. A retired ex-Russian lawyer from Paris, residing in a pension in Nervi, is disturbed by the arrival of a new neighbor - a vulgar and ill-tempered woman - so he pretends to have been bitten by a rabid poodle, which sends the woman ( Read more... )

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