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2003-10-18 @ 11:10 p.m.

"If on a winter's night a traveler, outside the town of Malbork, leaning from the steep slope without fear of wind or vertigo, looks down in the gathering shadow in a network of lines that enlace, in a network of lines that intersect, on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon around an empty grave – What story down there awaits its end? - he asks, anxious to hear the story." - From Italo Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveler

For some reason, I find this sentence very evocative. It's from a book I'm reading, and the structure of the whole book is basically a chapter narrating events from the reader's perspective, followed by a chapter narrating a story that you as the reader are reading. It's a refreshing style of story-telling, but I wish that Calvino had actually completed all the stories instead of leaving them hanging, even if that is supposed to be the whole premise of the book. The theme of the book seems to be about the nature of reading itself, and I'll come back to that if I have the time when I'm done reading. I need to start on my Literature mindmaps again...