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| ===== A Six Memos Mindset ===== | ==== A Six Memos Mindset ==== |
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| ==== Lightness ==== | === Lightness === |
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| <blockquote>…My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.\\ | <blockquote>…My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.\\ |
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| ==== Quickness ==== | === Quickness === |
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| <blockquote>Festina lente… | <blockquote>Festina lente… |
| * Take as much time as needed to make sure that what you say is the only thing that needs to be said… | * Take as much time as needed to make sure that what you say is the only thing that needs to be said… |
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| ==== Exactitude ==== | === Exactitude === |
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| <blockquote>To my mind exactitude means three things above all: | <blockquote>To my mind exactitude means three things above all: |
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| ==== Visibility ==== | === Visibility === |
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| <blockquote>If I have included visibility in my list of values to be saved, it is to give warning of the danger we run in losing a basic human faculty: the power of bringing visions into focus with our eyes shut, of bringing forth forms and colours from the lines of black letters on a white page, and in fact of thinking in terms of images.\\ | <blockquote>If I have included visibility in my list of values to be saved, it is to give warning of the danger we run in losing a basic human faculty: the power of bringing visions into focus with our eyes shut, of bringing forth forms and colours from the lines of black letters on a white page, and in fact of thinking in terms of images.\\ |
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| ==== Multiplicity ==== | === Multiplicity === |
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| <blockquote>Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement… The grand challenge for literature is to be capable of weaving together the various branches of knowledge, the various “codes” into a manifold and multifaceted vision of the world.\\ | <blockquote>Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement… The grand challenge for literature is to be capable of weaving together the various branches of knowledge, the various “codes” into a manifold and multifaceted vision of the world.\\ |
| * Keep multiple futures open for as long as possible. | * Keep multiple futures open for as long as possible. |
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| ==== Consistency ==== | === Consistency === |
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| <blockquote>The title Consistency appears at the bottom of the list of Six Memos. His wife Esther notes that Italo planned to write it when he arrived in Cambridge to give the lectures. Since many of Calvino's tales seem to leave something for the reader to finish, perhaps this book provides an example of his consistency in process, an unwritten but hinted at sixth memo for the new millennium for us as his readers to flesh out for ourselves after reading the first five memos.\\ | <blockquote>The title Consistency appears at the bottom of the list of Six Memos. His wife Esther notes that Italo planned to write it when he arrived in Cambridge to give the lectures. Since many of Calvino's tales seem to leave something for the reader to finish, perhaps this book provides an example of his consistency in process, an unwritten but hinted at sixth memo for the new millennium for us as his readers to flesh out for ourselves after reading the first five memos.\\ |
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