I've been reading "Six Memos for the Next Millennium", by Italo Calvino.
It's a dissection of modern literature, and what makes a piece of writing transcend the human condition and embed itself into the heart and mind of the people.
We have:
1. Lightness
2. Quickness
3. Exactitude
4. Visibility
5. Multiplicity
They were meant to be a series of lectures given at Harvard in 1995, but Calvino died suddenly of brain hemorrhage before he could complete the obviously missing sixth memo, which was meant to be about Consistency.
It's a shame that it remained unfinished, as it's an area in which I could stand gaining some insight.
But for now, I've found myself working on lightness.
It's a dissection of modern literature, and what makes a piece of writing transcend the human condition and embed itself into the heart and mind of the people.
We have:
1. Lightness
2. Quickness
3. Exactitude
4. Visibility
5. Multiplicity
They were meant to be a series of lectures given at Harvard in 1995, but Calvino died suddenly of brain hemorrhage before he could complete the obviously missing sixth memo, which was meant to be about Consistency.
It's a shame that it remained unfinished, as it's an area in which I could stand gaining some insight.
But for now, I've found myself working on lightness.
petsound:
you have such elegant hands, like the wings of putti in a Renaissance painting.
badronald:
Hello The Hold Steady fan.