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.
After forty years of writing fiction, after exploring various roads and making diverse experiments, the time has come for me to...
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we...
– Edward Gibbon
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