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A modo mio

Ogni risveglio dura pochi istanti, una manciata di attimi che sembrano eterni. Ti guardi intorno e realizzi che quello che stavi vivendo era un sogno talmente bello da sembrare quasi vero, poi, socchiudi gli occhi ed isoli la mente al fine di fuggire da tutti quei pensieri che contengono tracce di sentimento ed umanità da dimenticare; zittisci il cuore sperando di non provare più nulla e fingi di essere invincibile anche quando i ricordi hanno il potere di renderti fragile come la cartapesta.

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Jim Sanborn - Kryptos (1990)

In 1989, american artist Jim Sanborn was busy working on his Kryptos sculpture, a cryptographic puzzle wrapped in a riddle that he created for the CIA’s headquarters. The 12-foot-high, verdigrised copper, granite and wood sculpture on the grounds of the CIA complex in Langley, Virginia, contains four encrypted messages carved out of the metal, three of which were solved years ago.The fourth is composed of just 97 letters, but its brevity belies its strength. The artwork features a large block of petrified wood standing upright, with a tall copper plate scrolling out from the wood like a sheet of paper. At the sculpture’s base is a round pool with a fountain pump that sends water moving in a circular direction around the pool. Carved out of the copper plate are approximately 1,800 letters, some of them forming a cryptographic table based on a method developed by a 16th-century Frenchman named Blaise de Vigenere.

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Murder on the Orient Express (2017) directed by Kenneth Branagh.