Italo Calvino Quote

It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.


The Non-existent Knight: And, The Cloven Viscount (ed. 1962)


It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to...

It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to...

It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to...

It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to...