“ We might say that throughout the centuries two opposite tendencies have competed in literature: one tries to make the language into a weightless element that hovers above things like a cloud or better, perhaps, the finest dust or, better still, a field of magnetic impulses. The other tries to give language the weight, density, and concreteness of things, bodies, and sensations.
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— ‘Lightness,’ Six Memos for the Next Millenium by Italo Calvino
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