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“...we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears."
second calvino of the year after invisible cities. very meta, which in less serious hands could become cloying. it manages to work out.
you (the real you, not the second perspective protagonist of most of the book) will think about the act of reading in a different way by the end of it, or at least become more conscious of it. so read if you like to read and read about reading.
Mar 3, 2025
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I actually read this awhile ago but reread it recently (and I neverrrrr reread stuff so that’s saying smth) because it’s such a fun, experiential read. I am a sucker for a good metafictional shtick (been also meaning to reread Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy, so maybe bit of a theme there to what I feel compelled to reread)
Mar 13, 2025
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Awesome book by ítalo Calvino highly recommend
Jan 24, 2025
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an incredibly funny and bitter 1995 novel about an idyllic european city undergoing a cultural crisis. this book is relentless in its effort to confuse you. at no point do the book’s strange conventions explain or justify themselves - it’s on you to make sense of it. combine Kafka’s Amerika, Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, and your most vivid dream from childhood and you’ll have some idea of how challenging and spellbinding this book is. Ishiguro doesn’t give a FUCK about following literary conventions, tying things up neatly, or holding the reader’s hand, and that’s what i love about it.
Jan 26, 2024
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create without the thought it is “for” something. let the project be whatever it wants to be, and recognize you are bringing it to fruition because something vital within you is actualized in doing so.
when you create independent of outcome, the sense of pressure dissipates and there’s more room for originality and enjoyment.
Mar 4, 2025
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im not that cold
no one is ive ever touched
just like that, humanity affirmed
Mar 4, 2025