Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
A child’s pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes …
Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
Marco enters a city; he sees someone in a square living a life or an instant that could be his; he could now be in that man’s place, if …
Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
The real protagonist of the story, however, is the magic ring, because it is the movements of the ring that determine those of the characters and because it is the …
Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. The …
Top Ten Articles on Synkroniciti 2015
Here are the top articles posted on Synkroniciti during 2015. This year saw fewer articles than videos or photoblogs, but those I posted found resonance with many of you. Click …
Unearthly Appetites: Italo Calvino’s The Distance of the Moon
Humanity crosses increasing distances searching for new territory to explore. Is the distance between and within us threatening our survival? Italo Calvino published Cosmicomics, a book of fantastic short stories …
Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the …