6.29.2005
Forty-Third Book
Invisible Cities : Italo Calvino
Harcourt : 1974
Bought at Twelfth Street Books for $4.50+
Recommended by Shelley Jackson
Started 6.26.05
Finished 6.27.05
The Line: "You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions; on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask" (95).
Once, for a week, I
was invisisble. Not that
you'd have noticed though. ¶ 09:39
Invisible Cities : Italo CalvinoHarcourt : 1974
Bought at Twelfth Street Books for $4.50+
Recommended by Shelley Jackson
Started 6.26.05
Finished 6.27.05
The Line: "You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions; on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask" (95).
Once, for a week, I
was invisisble. Not that
you'd have noticed though. ¶ 09:39
