"I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight f...

I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
~ Italo Calvino ~












I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.

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