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Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Brilliantly beautiful thoughts by Italo Calvino on simply everything. It is the one book that I could not live life without.

6/context, books   Jul 23, '06

4 Responses to “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”

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   Will  August 31, 2006

   I couldn’t agree more, it’s a fabulous book. I first read Calvino in 1990, If On a Winters Night a Traveller, which is still my favourite of his books. I love the concept of travelling through life in the spirit of festina lente, slowly hurrying. There is a magic that guides Calvinos work, and the humour is fantastic. Is it in Mr Palomar where the character does not want to make the woman on the beach bathing topless feel uncomfortable, so to doubly prove his indifference he walks past her back and forwards pointedly not looking at her- but having the effect of making him appear to be somewhat letcherous. A truly magical comic scene. So sympotamic of what remaind coded and hidden in non-verbal communication too I think.

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   John Maeda  September 1, 2006

   I was fortunate to discover it in 2000. It is the kind of book you can read every year and apply the ideas and insights afresh.

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   mc  September 7, 2006

   Invisible Cities is the one for me. It is the layering of the stories, and the apparent simplicity that is so captivating. I agree that it is something that you get different things from each time you read them.

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   maeda  September 7, 2006

   Isn’t that which is elegantly simple so utterly complex because with each re-encounter you find something brand new?

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