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Title: Visualize
Review: Can I tell you how much I love Italo Calvino?When you come to Calvino you are probably lost, tired, or under duress from an overzealous English professor. You think, what is the style of this man? About what does he write? And why are the chapters so short? And could he not choose more hideous type in which to set the names of those chapters?Ah, now you are beginning to truly love Calvino. For it is only when you recognize that the man maddens you no end, that his "style which is no style" (as he says of himself in IOAWNAT) is gentle and beautiful and feels like an old friend-but an old friend that you never met-that you can truly begin to live inside one of his novels. And you will never want to leave. Savor this book. Read it slowly, one magic city at a time. Exist in it for weeks, turning the lessons like foreign coins over in your mind.And get the book in paperback so it won't damage the walls.Bon voyage.
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