Ask the Author: Raphael Canossa
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Raphael Canossa
I have a wonderful lazy tomcat, and the Belgian shepherd Malinois Fred whom I simply adore. But they all require a bit of effort on my side to walk them around and feed, so being a dog and cat master is a challenge indeed!
Raphael Canossa
I dream about it. I hope I will some day. I am researching stuff for it. I pile it in my memory and in the notebook!
Raphael Canossa
I’d give both Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell 10 points! But dont forget the other great models - Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss (I hear what you whisper!), Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum, Amber Valletta.
That had been indeed the era of true chic and gamour, which I miss!
That had been indeed the era of true chic and gamour, which I miss!
Raphael Canossa
Fantastic spirit of the city. From Apollinaire and Modigliani and Picasso to Serge Gainsbourg and Audrey Tautou and Sarkozy's girlfriend, the incomparable Italian Carla Bruni. Everything that embodies this spirit speaks of life, of vitality, of unfading beauty, of the highest culture. Let's be honest - there are no other places like this on earth, nothing can compare with Paris, in this sense it is one of a kind.
Raphael Canossa
Shalom, Ani lo medaber Ivrit tov meod - I do not speak Hebrew as (perfectly) as I’d wish. Partly because Hebrew is known to be a very logical language, quite simple to learn Lol. Unfortunately, I was not born in the Promised Land of Moses, Abraham, Ytzhak and Yaakov - I came here only recently, just 7 years ago, so I still consider myself Olim Hadash. Right now, I am in Montreux in beautiful Switzerland - but that’s only for a week. Partly because Switzerland is just as expensive to live there as Israel, big Lol again.
Raphael Canossa
Now I live in Israel, it’s always damn hot here in summer. But the same was in Jesus’s era, I guess.
Raphael Canossa
Human feelings, LOVE of man and a woman, People vs. Dictators and oppression.
Raphael Canossa
That’s a really hard one. I began one novel, than another idea struck me, so I went over to writing another one. And now, I am at the THIRD! And none of those are finished, God bless my soul.
Raphael Canossa
Yes, right now I'm writing a novel about the current situation in Europe. The French President, the US President, and some lower types are interacting.
Raphael Canossa
Sure, Nnaemeka David, your invaluable contribution is the most welcome. Long live Freedom of the people and nations, and let Love be spread around the globe to be enough for all.
Raphael Canossa
In the news, frankly. Which I put thru my heart and brains.
Raphael Canossa
Watching TV, reading books, listening to the news, talking with people. And by seeing pictures, like the ones by Van Gogh!
Raphael Canossa
Never, never ever give up! Writing is painful and slow and tiresome. But… if you’re into it, it’ll be like sex - this can only end up with your own life’s end!
Raphael Canossa
Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"
Shakespear "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Longfellow "The Song of Hiawatha"
Sidney Sheldon's The Silent Widow
Shakespear "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Longfellow "The Song of Hiawatha"
Sidney Sheldon's The Silent Widow
Raphael Canossa
You are simply doing what you truly love. You fulfil your own creative dreams and innermost desires. You make your voice heard, and your name written into the history book of the humanity.
Raphael Canossa
I just stop writing and start doing something else. Cooking, going for a walk, bicycle riding. Going to the Mediterranean sea shore, to listen to the murmur of the waves and to look at them. And then, phrase after phrase, the next paragraphs of my novel start to build up…
Raphael Canossa
Russian President Putin is the master of our Earth. The former Earth's inhabitants have mostly relocated to Mars.
Raphael Canossa
I would go to Tolkien’s Middle-earth. And I hope to become one of the knights of Gondor!
Raphael Canossa
When I was swimming diving at the Geneva Plage privée des Paquis, across from the famous Fountain of Geneva and very close to Quai Wilson, I noticed a silver coin lying on the sand. It seemed to me that it was a Roman coin - with the profile of some Emperor stamped on it. The moment I spotted it, I was out of breath, so I hastened to take a deep breath and dived again to pick it up - but the goddamn coin was gone! After that, I dived like a madman, for about half an hour, and furrowed all the sand in the spot, but the coin was gone - as if it were bewitched, spell-bound. I left the plage feeling kind of devastated, even ruined.
A week later, I was strolling across the Mont-Blanc street. And there, in one of the numismatic shops, I spotted that coin - right in the shop-window. With a beating heart, I ran into the shop and asked for the coin to be demonstrated to me. The owner, kind of reluctantly, gave it to me. That was a silver Denarius of Emperor Heliogabalus. I asked him how he got it, what was the source. The shop owner just as reluctantly told me that it came from a collection of a renowned Italian professor. But there was insincerity in his voice and pose, and I didn’t quite believe it.
So the mystery remained unsolved. And I still believe that there had been a mysterious connection between that silver coin under the water at the Geneva plage, and that silver Denarius of Emperor Heliogabalus in the shop window at rue Mont-Blanc.
A week later, I was strolling across the Mont-Blanc street. And there, in one of the numismatic shops, I spotted that coin - right in the shop-window. With a beating heart, I ran into the shop and asked for the coin to be demonstrated to me. The owner, kind of reluctantly, gave it to me. That was a silver Denarius of Emperor Heliogabalus. I asked him how he got it, what was the source. The shop owner just as reluctantly told me that it came from a collection of a renowned Italian professor. But there was insincerity in his voice and pose, and I didn’t quite believe it.
So the mystery remained unsolved. And I still believe that there had been a mysterious connection between that silver coin under the water at the Geneva plage, and that silver Denarius of Emperor Heliogabalus in the shop window at rue Mont-Blanc.
Raphael Canossa
When I was swimming diving at the Geneva Plage privée des Paquis, across from the famous Fountain of Geneva and very close to Quai Wilson, I noticed a silver coin lying on the sand. It seemed to me that it was a Roman coin - with the profile of some Emperor stamped on it. The moment I spotted it, I was out of breath, so I hastened to take a deep breath and dived again to pick it up - but the goddamn coin was gone! After that, I dived like a madman, for about half an hour, and furrowed all the sand in the spot, but the coin was gone - as if it were bewitched, spell-bound. I left the plage feeling kind of devastated, even ruined.
A week later, I was strolling across the Mont-Blanc street. And there, in one of the numismatic shops, I spotted that coin - right in the shop-window. With a beating heart, I ran into the shop and asked for the coin to be demonstrated to me. The owner, kind of reluctantly, gave it to me. That was a silver Denarius of Emperor Heliogabalus. I asked him how he got it, what was the source. The shop owner just as reluctantly told me that it came from a collection of a renowned Italian professor. But there was insincerity in his voice and pose, and I didn’t quite believe it.
So the mystery remained unsolved. And I still believe that there had been a mysterious connection between that silver coin under the water at the Geneva plage, and that silver Denarius of Emperor Heliogabalus in the shop window at rue Mont-Blanc.
A week later, I was strolling across the Mont-Blanc street. And there, in one of the numismatic shops, I spotted that coin - right in the shop-window. With a beating heart, I ran into the shop and asked for the coin to be demonstrated to me. The owner, kind of reluctantly, gave it to me. That was a silver Denarius of Emperor Heliogabalus. I asked him how he got it, what was the source. The shop owner just as reluctantly told me that it came from a collection of a renowned Italian professor. But there was insincerity in his voice and pose, and I didn’t quite believe it.
So the mystery remained unsolved. And I still believe that there had been a mysterious connection between that silver coin under the water at the Geneva plage, and that silver Denarius of Emperor Heliogabalus in the shop window at rue Mont-Blanc.
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