Rainy Friday, Fiction

"You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of ordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst. This is the conclusion you have reached, in your personal life and also in general matters, even international affairs. What about books? Well precisely because you have denied it in every other field you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectations in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious."

-Italo Calvino

So opens Calvino's best known novel "If On a Winters Night a Traveler"
This is the first novel that I own from Calvino's sizeable archive of books--and flipping through the first few pages of it was already an enjoyable experience.

I can say that from this quote, Calvino has summarized my being in a nutshell.
F*ckin' Amazing.