2019-11-15 Italo Calvino - Six Memos for the Next Millenium
APAvar: Calvino, Italo (1988). Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Mariner Books.
Link: https://worldcat.org/en/title/948668878
2 Quickness
pages 61 - 62:
I would like to put together a collection of stories consisting of a single sentence, or if possible a single line. But so far I haven't found any that surpass the one by the Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso: "When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there."
4 Visibility
pages 111 - 112:
But there is another definition in which I recognize myself fully, and that is of the imagination as repertoire of the potential, of the hypothetical, of that which is not and has not been and may never be but could have been.
... the gulf of potential multiplicity ...
... the part played in the gulf of the imagination by the indirect imaginary, by which I mean the images provided by culture, whether mass culture or some other form. ....
(WLAn): the definition of imagination reminds me of this excerpt from Bruno Schulz - The Book