For me, though, a major obstacle in my pursuit of pleasure was my ingrained sense of Puritan guilt. Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is very Am...
Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing here, I admit it. 我承认，有时候我不了解自己在这里做什么。While I have come to Italy in order to experience pleasure, during the fir...
'Who is Mrs Pipchin, Louisa?' asked Mr Dombey; aghast at this familiar introduction of a name he had never heard before. “皮普钦太太是谁，路易莎？”董贝先生问道，...
Mrs Chick was afraid to say limbs, after Mr Dombey's recent objection to bones, and therefore waited for a suggestion from Miss Tox, who, true to ...
Luca is a tax accountant. An Italian tax accountant, which means that he is, in his own description, "an artist," because there are several ...
I've also become friends with a cool couple named Maria and Giulio, introduced to me by my friend Anne—an American painter who lived in Rome a few...
'Ay! But that's at night,' said Mr Dombey, drawing his own chair closer to his son's, and laying his hand gently on his back; 'lit...
Here's what's strange, though. I haven't seemed to be able to do any Yoga since getting to Rome. For years I've had a steady and serio...
After a moment, still breathing heavily, I felt a clear pinpoint of light ignite within me, and then I found myself writing this amused and ever-calm ...
He didn't ask the question of his father this time. Perhaps he had seen, with a child's quickness, that it had already made his father uncomfo...