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Quotation by Italo Calvino
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Charles Fourier, Theory of the Four Movements (1971)"Cinema and the Novel: Problems of Narrative" The Uses of Literature, trans. Patrick Creagh, Harcourt Brace (1986)"Cybernetics and Ghosts" published in The Literature Machine (1987)"Cybernetics and Ghosts" The Literature Machine (1987)"Definitions of Territories: Comedy" Il Caffé (Rome, Feb. 1967)Related Subjects
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Italo Calvino (1923–1985), Italian author, critic. Marco Polo, in Invisible Cities, p. 137 (1972, trans. 1974).
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