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Six Memos

En annen kilde her er Italo Calvinos essay "Letthet" i boka Six Memos,

"To cut off Medusa's head without being turned to stone, Perseus
supports himself on the very lightest of things, the winds and the
clouds, and fixes his gaze upon what can be revealed only by indirect
vision, an image caught in a mirror. ... Lucretius is the poet of
physical concreteness, viewed in its permanent and immutable substance,
but the first thing he tells us is that emptiness is just as concrete as
solid bodies."


"Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dare
imagine will literature continue to have a function.  Since science has
begun to distrust general explanations that are not sectorial and
specialized, the grand challenge for literature is to be capable of
weaving together the various branches of knowledge, the various 'codes,'
into a manifold and multifacted vision of the world."
--Italo Calvino, Multiplicity, Six Memos