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In praise of lightness – Calvino’s Leggerezza.
The Italian writer, Italo Calvino, was invited to give the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University in 1985 but died before he was able to deliver them. Luckily, we have the text of 5 of these 6 planned lectures … Continue reading →
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Tagged emergence, Italo Calvino, Leggerezza, Lezioni Amerciane, Lightness, Six memos for the next millennium, Thinking Global, weight
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