Sublime

only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is unwritten.

Calvino himself collected and perhaps partially invented many Italian wonder tales in his classic work Italian Folktales, and all his work was steeped in the language of the Italian fable.

Perhaps it is this story that is a bridge over the void, and as it advances it flings forward news and sensations and emotions to create a ground of upsets both collective and individual in the midst of which a path can be opened while we remain in the dark about many circumstances both historical and geographical.

And since for him artifice is the true substance of everything, the author who devised a perfect system of artifices would succeed in identifying himself with the whole.

all places communicate instantly with all other places, a sense of isolation is felt only during the trip between one place and the other, that is, when you are in no place.