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Marcovaldo Quotes

Three of the best book quotes from Marcovaldo
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“it was Saturday; and Marcovaldo spent his free half-day circling the bed of dirt with an absent air, keeping an eye on the street-cleaner in the distance and on the mushrooms, and calculating how much time they needed to ripen.”
Italo Calvino
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The Seasons In The City
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Saturday
free half-day
town life
concepts
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“Marcovaldo is a poor workman living in an industrial city in northern Italy during the 1950′s and ‘60’s. The stories are placed within the book in a seasonal order; in other words, the first story takes place in Spring, the second in Summer, and so on, consecutively. ”
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“Where Marcovaldo himself is thrilled by nature, his children, who are thoroughly urban, seem to misunderstand any references to natural things.”

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