"Io parlo parlo ... ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta. ... Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio."
— Marco Polo

January 1, 1970

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I speak and speak, ... but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. ... It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. — Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1974), Ch. 9