September 2011
7 posts
LIGHTNESS
BY ITALO CALVINO
I will devote my first lecture to the opposition between lightness and weight, and will uphold the values of lightness. This does not mean that I consider the virtues of weight any less compelling, but simply that I have more to say about lightness.
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