Italo Calvino Kept Calling Me
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Italo Calvino Kept Calling Me
Seuss shirt, got in bed, and started writing in my notebook. I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time—the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time pas
... See moreElif Batuman • The Idiot
In the years when I discovered the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten years or more, the man of letters (restored to his loftiest dignity) can happily write out of pure love of writing.
William Weaver • The Name of the Rose
La “hazaña del poeta”, como la nombra Lacan, no es solo producir el equívoco con el sentido, sino “eliminar un sentido” y reemplazar ese sentido ausente por un vacío, apuntando al efecto de agujero, a S(A/). Se introduce en el desarrollo continuo de la conexión entre significantes una discontinuidad, un corte que opera una desconexión, se trata de ... See more