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If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller

ifonawintersnight

So, then, you noticed in a newspaper that If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller had appeared, the new book by Italo Calvino, who hadn’t published for several years. You went to the bookshop and bought the volume. Good for …
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06. January 2012 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Italo Calvino written in 1979

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Marcovaldo

The heavy man pointed the tip of his cane towards the rows of lights that were coming on, down below. “In the evening,” he said, “with this stick I take my walk in the city. I choose a street, a …
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04. August 2008 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Italo Calvino written in 1963

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Marcovaldo

At the summons of the loudspeaker, the crowd of customers was gripped by a frantic haste, as if these were the last minutes in the last supermarket of the whole world, an urgency either to grab everything there was or …
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18. June 2008 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Italo Calvino written in 1963

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