Quote of the day
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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)








