Ten Tributes to Calvino by Hughes Rhys

Author:Hughes, Rhys [Hughes, Rhys]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-10-29T20:00:00+00:00

ON THE WINDOWSILL

The sun wanted to complain about a trick that humans kept playing. “I’m intrigued by the magnifying glasses they leave lying on their windowsills; but every time I peer into one, all I can see is a rapidly expanding charred circle and wisps of smoke. I’m certain that’s not the same as what humans see. There’s something funny going on!”

THE DUNGEON

The sun poked its nose into a prison cell and saw a depressed prisoner on a bed of rotten straw. “What’s wrong?”

The prisoner pulled his matted beard and said:

“I shared this grim cell with a man who kept me entertained with tales of distant places and through him I lived vicariously as a traveller, but he has been moved to a different room and I am bored again. The bubbles of illusion he created have all burst.”

“Tell me about your life,” prompted the sun.

“It has been a long and exciting one, that’s for sure! I was born in Pisa in the tumultuous 13th Century and became a professional fabricator and embellisher of romances at a young age. I was captured by the forces of Genoa at the Battle of Meloria…”

“One moment. I’ll write down everything you say. Maybe a book can be made out of it; a bestseller!”

“Do you really think so?” blinked the man.

“Sure! What’s your name?”

“Rustichello,” came the answer, spoken in a resigned tone, for many readers wouldn’t recognise it.

But you will, because you’re clever.

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