"I belong to that portion of humanity—a minority on the planetary scale but a majority I think among my public—that spends a large part of its waking hours in a special world, a world made up of horizontal lines where the words follow one another one at a time, where every sentence and every paragraph occupies its set place: a world that can be very rich, maybe even richer than the nonwritten one, but that requires me to make a special adjustment to situate myself in it. ...”
2020 April: Invisible Cities (1972), 2021 September: Cooking with Italo Calvino - Valerie Stivers
Atelier of the Boxes, ivory writing tablet and lid (Medieval, between 1340 and 1360, northern France)
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