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Italo Calvino

“With my spyglass I can observe a woman who is reading on a terrace in the valley," I told her. "I wonder if the books she reads are calming or upsetting."
"How does the woman seem to you? Calm or upset?"
"Calm."
"Then she reads upsetting books.”

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
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