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Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities (Paperback, 1997, Vintage Classics)

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities …

AS YOU DEPART FROM CHLOE, you know deeper than skin and deeper than heart, that the collection of momentary glances or that train which passed right in front of your face, altogether only promising to suck you into the thin air, lacking a slightest chance to do so, shift the plates of your soul more than an hours-long conversation with a friend or an enemy in a bowl of sugar floss whiped by streams of air.