Universes.
Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In
fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves
fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than
a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests
to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and
springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of
reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away
from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is
indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to
read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole
universes, which I can never exhaust.
Italo Calvino
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