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(I’m duplicating this particular section in Hypercompendia as it truly relates to hypertext) We are in the center of a discussion regarding the Reader and the Other Reader and their eventual intimacy, thus bringing them together just as has the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Still in the setting of the sexual comparison/contrast to the literary: If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional model, perhaps four-dimensional, or rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In this portion of Chapter 7, Calvino turns to address the 2nd Person POV to both Readers at one time, since they have ‘become one’ in bed.  Even while he likens the sexual act to reading as in reading bodies, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just when I get the old Marquez/McCarthy feeling that I needn’t ever write another word Calvino jumps up and verifies my thoughts: But how to establish the exact moment in which a story begins? Everything has already begun before, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Another lesson on writing from Calvino, and his method is one of showing, then hinting, then telling in case you didn’t get it: A glance into the refrigerator allows other valuable date to be gathered: in the egg slots only … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It is possible that I’m learning more from this one novel about writing than in all else, or perhaps it is what I have learned that is recognizable in it. The main story, that is, the one that is continuous … Continue reading → Continue reading →

No doubt in my mind, in this section Calvino is teaching the reader the glories of hypertext.  Even the title indicates the track he’s on: In a network of lines that enlace. First we have an idea of what words … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In nearly every book, even the so-called best, there comes the part that drags.  Chapter 6 for me was that. In what should have been an extremely interesting chapter that tells much about the mystery of the many stories and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Calvino has made a practice here of saying and doing. He is explaining writing tricks and traits even as he pulls them.  He explains critique as easily as he explains audience.  Audience, after all, is what this novel is about; … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well Calvino’s got everybody in here–I didn’t even post on what he had to say about publishers–and here may be a little poke at the genre of ‘literary’ or those, perhaps, who don’t quite know how to categorize it: "According … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Thinking of my own many, many stories started, often just a paragraph or two, sometimes a few pages, I cannot help but envy Calvino this novel chance to create from scraps and pieces. His stories do intrigue.  In Looks down … Continue reading → Continue reading →

No, not because of the threesome in the story prior to this, Chapter 5, but rather that the thought occurred to me that if this novel were to be held to sexual standards, that’s where it’d likely settle most comfortably, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Chapter 5–the numbered chapters being the story of the 2nd person narrator who along with the Other Reader (Ludmilla) each purchased the book "If on a winter’s night a traveler" only to find that it is a series of unrelated … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In this next section of the bought book our narrator is reading, the story begins with new characters and setting. Titled "Without fear of wind or vertigo," it takes place in what seems to be a war zone of a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

With the next section of the "corrected" novel our narrator is reading we have a break in pattern; precisely, by a connection with the previous story in the book.  The reason for feeling the novel was improperly printed was the … Continue reading → Continue reading →