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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Notable Nobs Not Unpleasant to Know: Italo Calvino

Not unpleasant to know...? The Calvino
whom his mom named Italo, not Dino --
an artiste, even when a bambino.
Counting cards in his cousin's casino
left no time to play Keno in Reno,
though he did treat the antineutrino
in his book Cosmicomics. Calvino
is a paradox. No...? Just ask Zeno.

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