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Indeed, thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem heavy and opaque.
Italo Calvino • Six Memos for the Next Millennium
“I always thought that ‘the voice’ was meant to indicate a kind of genuine, authentic, absolute individuation, which struck me as (a) undesirable and (b) impossible,” he said. “Whereas a ‘sound’ was really within the midst of this intense engagement with everything: with all the noise that you’ve ever heard, you struggle somehow to make a... See more
Fred Moten’s Radical Critique of the Present
I soon realized that the gap between the realities of life that were supposed to be my raw materials and the sharp, darting nimbleness that I wanted to animate my writing was becoming harder and harder for me to bridge.
Italo Calvino • Six Memos for the Next Millennium
ANNIHILATE THE SELF, we wrote to one another. I don’t know how many times. Annihilate the self. It wasn’t about death, mysticism, or equilibrium, it was about reinventing oneself as a writer. Withdrawal was chrysalis. How to grow a completely different lung, for another breath.
Sofia Samatar • Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life
Above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of the story and from language.
Italo Calvino • Six Memos for the Next Millennium
