I periodically have to remind myself of this from #ItaloCalvino and his #InvisibleCities.

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” ~ Italo Calvino

#ItaloCalvino #InvisibleCities #Istanbul

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I do remember where I bought the book; but it was at the University's bookstore, which carried books in foreign languages as well as English translations. So that does not help...

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#ItaloCalvino

“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.”

~ Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

#Venice #Venezia #ItaloCalvino #memory #forgetting

“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.”

~ Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

#Venice #Venezia #ItaloCalvino #memory

Useless quote for 24 Mar:

"Love is a great explanation of life, it gives you the illusion of being close to understanding the reason for your existence in the middle of the universe."

~ Italo Calvino (1943)

#UselessQuote #ItaloCalvino

Doing the #bookstodon 7 books to know me thing:

#LucyMaudMontgomery, Anne of Green Gables
#AnneCarson / #Sappho, If Not, Winter
#MarciaDouglas, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread
#HermannHesse, Glass Bead Game
#ItaloCalvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler
#RodrigoFresán, The Invented/Dreamed/Remembered Part trilogy
#JennyHval, Girls Against God

Esto es una virguería y una preciosidad 🖤🖤

This is soooooo beautiful.

#books #literature #literatura #ItaloCalvino #Palomar

Doing the #bookstodon 7 books to know me thing:

#LucyMaudMontgomery, Anne of Green Gables
#AnneCarson / #Sappho, If Not, Winter
#MarciaDouglas, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread
#HermannHesse, Glass Bead Game
#ItaloCalvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler
#RodrigoFresán, The Invented/Dreamed/Remembered Part trilogy
#JennyHval, Girls Against God

RT @vmspod@twitter.com

New episode! @DawnRaffel@twitter.com rejoins the show to celebrate her amazing new book, BOUNDLESS AS THE SKY (@saggingmeniscus@twitter.com)! We talk #writing #ItaloCalvino #YogaNidra the Century of Progress World's Fair, the joy of a finely-wrought sentence & more, so go listen! http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-523-dawn-raffel

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/vmspod/status/1617657127321088001

The dimension of time has been shattered; we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

#Literature #ItaloCalvino

The Written World and the Unwritten World by Italo Calvino review – exquisite flights of imagination https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/10/the-written-world-and-the-unwritten-world-by-italo-calvino-review-exquisite-flights-of-imagination #literature #imagination #italocalvino

Tältä vuodelta odotan Ville Keynäsin #GeorgePerec-käännöstä. Kuinka Disparitionin #lipogrammi "e" kääntyy #Häviäminen-nimiseksi romaaniksi, josta puuttuu kokonaan suomen kielen yleisin kirjain: a. Perec ja #ItaloCalvino ovat muutenkin suosittelulistallani jokaiselle, jota kiinnostaa #Oulipo. #KirjaMastodon

Excellent find in Bedford Oxfam Bookshop this weekend. If on a winter’s night a traveller has been recommended a couple of times now by one of the tutors on my #MAcreativeWriting. 
Have you read any ItaloCalvino? 
#ItaloCalvino #IfOnAWintersNightATraveller #CharityBooks #CharityShopFinds #shelfie #BooksBooksBooks

Excellent find in Bedford @OxfamGB Bookshop this weekend. If on a winter’s night a traveller has been recommended a couple of times now by one of the tutors on my #MAcreativeWriting.

Have you read any ItaloCalvino?

#ItaloCalvino #IfOnAWintersNightATraveler #CharityBooks #CharityShopFinds #shelfie #BooksBooksBooks @bookstodon@a.gup.pe.pe #bookstodon

Hi #writers ! Bummed out by the latest #IA #writing developments? Well, let me cheer you up with my pal #ItaloCalvino who already had a hot take on this issue back in 1967. 🧵

#7books to get to know me, I guess most people are doing novels. Apparently this is the new thing, let’s get started:

#INostriAntenati by #ItaloCalvino (aka The Cloven Viscount, The Invisible Knight, and the Baron in the Trees).
#OneHundredYearsofSolitude by #GabrielGarciaMarquez
#TheMinistryForTheFuture by #KimStanleyRobinson
#TheOverstory by #RichardLPowers
#Foucaults Pendulum by #UmbertoEco
#Piranesi by #SusannaClarke
#TheHandmaidsTale by #MargaretAtwood

@profbriancox thanks for inspiring my username. #ItaloCalvino

“ So here I am walking along this empty surface that is the world. There is a wind grazing the ground, dragging with flurries of fine snow the last residue of the vanished world..... was it a few seconds ago that everything ceased to exist, or many centuries? I’ve already lost any sense of time. ”

#italocalvino #ifonawintersnightatraveller

Oh people are doing favourite authors! Probably forgetting loads, but here’s a few core ones: #UrsulaKLeGuin #OctaviaEButler #AnnQuin #ItaloCalvino #JeanetteWinterson (I know) #MargaretAtwood and early #SalmanRushdie