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        Date: 2022-09-25 17:42:28+00:00
        From: scholar-at-large@bell.net <scholar-at-large@bell.net>
        Subject: Calvino on Author as Machine

Willard

A little blast from the past ...

[quote]
And so the author vanishes –– that spoiled child of ignorance –– to give place
to a more thoughtful person, a person who will know that the author is a
machine, and will know how this machine works.
[quote]

Italo Calvino
"Cybernetics and Ghosts" [1967 lecture]
The Uses of Literature

… to cast a light on the present.


François Lachance, Ph.d.
scholar-at-large@bell.net
@FranoisLachanc2


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