Quote of the day
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
Roberto Calasso
Born: May 30, 1941
Died: July 28, 2021 (aged 80)
Bio: Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Italian, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German. Latin and Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He was called 'a literary institution of one'.
Known for:
- The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1988)
- Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India (1998)
- The Art of the Publisher (2015)
- The ruin of Kasch (1994)
- Literature and the gods (2001)








