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https://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n17/salman-rushdie/calvino https://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n17/salman-rushdie/calvino "I have quoted this line in full because it is the la
by hprotagonist 8y ago
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"I have quoted this line in full because it is the last example on record of a bad sentence by Italo Calvino."
If you haven't yet, check out the audiobooks of the Abhorsen books. Tim Curry makes an excellent snarky cat with mysterious powers...
- whatrocks 8y ago"instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the (“neo-realistic”) novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic." Chills.