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 portiune stancoasa a coastei italiene scaldate in soare, un tanar hangiu, cufundat in vise cu ochii deschisi, priveste apele incandescente ale Marii Ligurice si vede o aparitie: o femeie frumoasa, o viziune in alb, apropiindu-se de el pe o barca. Este o vedeta americana, afla el curand, si este pe moarte.