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Calvino’s First Memo: Lightness

This week I’m using Italo Calvino’s Six Memos For the Next Millennium as inspiration for my musings on Great Work. His first memo is on Lightness, and I’m immediately taken to its opposite: weight, and in particular the weight of … Continue reading

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Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium

A favourite writer of mine is Italo Calvino.  His *Invisible Cities* is a masterpiece of imagined futures, short prose gems in which Marco Polo and Genghis Khan tell stories of cities where the truth of how we live is build … Continue reading

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