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A review by axlndra
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
inspiring
fast-paced
4.0
Beautiful and engaging book, Without Colours was my definite favourite. I've saved 2 quotes:
1. "To survive that ultraviolet you couldn't be too demanding. Above all the lack of atmosphere asserted itself in many ways; you take meteors for example: they fell like hail from all the points of space, because then we didn't have the stratosphere where nowadays they strike, as if on roof, and disintegrate. Then there was the silence: no use shouting! Without air to vibrate, we were all deaf and dumb."
2. "(...) I realized her place could never have been out here. And I realized, with grief and fear, that I had remained out here, that I would never again be able to escape those gilded and silvered gleams, those little clouds that turned from pale blue to pink, those green leaves that yellowed every autumn, and that Ayl's perfect world was lost for ever, so lost I couldn't even imagine it any more, and nothing was left that could remind me of it, even remotely, nothing except perhaps that cold wall of grey stone."
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1. "To survive that ultraviolet you couldn't be too demanding. Above all the lack of atmosphere asserted itself in many ways; you take meteors for example: they fell like hail from all the points of space, because then we didn't have the stratosphere where nowadays they strike, as if on roof, and disintegrate. Then there was the silence: no use shouting! Without air to vibrate, we were all deaf and dumb."
2. "(...) I realized her place could never have been out here. And I realized, with grief and fear, that I had remained out here, that I would never again be able to escape those gilded and silvered gleams, those little clouds that turned from pale blue to pink, those green leaves that yellowed every autumn, and that Ayl's perfect world was lost for ever, so lost I couldn't even imagine it any more, and nothing was left that could remind me of it, even remotely, nothing except perhaps that cold wall of grey stone."