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“Very strange by very beautiful. Highly recommended.”
“"You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."I have heard of the term literary masturbation a few times before but I never really understood it until I read Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Maybe this is what people refer to when they say “writing for writing’s sake.”Beautiful, melodic prose. Wonderful weaving of words. A melee of metaphysical metaphors. Dizzying, dazzling details. Vivid imagery....”
“Oh, I will try to find it-thanks for the tip! And you should read Kazuo Okakura's Book of Tea, which is also very,very poetic!”