Beautiful Ruins

Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying.

Undeva, pe o zona stancoasa a coastei italiene, udata de soare, un tanar hangiar, adanc in piept in visele cu ochii deschisi, se uita la apele incandescente ale Marii Ligurice si vede o aparitie: o femeie frumoasa, o viziune in alb, care se apropie de el pe un barca. Ea este o starleta americana, el invata curand si ea este pe moarte.