Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Italo Calvino's Magic Moon

 "Now, you will ask me what in the world we went up on the Moon for; I'll explain it to you. We went to collect the milk, with a big spoon and a bucket. Moon-milk was very thick, like a kind of cream cheese."

     - Italo Calvino, "The Distance of the Moon" from Cosmicomics


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