Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Vintage Books, 1998) p. 259
23 Nov 2013
The ultimate meaning
Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in two ways: having passed all tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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