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Mister Calvino |
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| Gonçalo M. Tavares |
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Illustrations by Rachel Caiano
Translated by Roopanjali Roy |
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ISBN 81-89420-06-2
2007 • 72 pages • paperback
€ 8.50 | Rs. 200 |
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| Excerpt: |
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| Games |
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| We need to define the rules to determine who won, if I did or if you did… - said Mister Duchamp to Calvino, once all the pieces had been gathered up and the game had been concluded. |
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| But now, after we’ve played? |
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| There have to be rules… - insisted Mister Duchamp - so that we know who’s won. |
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| But who’s going to define the rules now? - asked Calvino. |
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| You or…me. |
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| Well…me or you? |
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| You can begin, suggested Mister Duchamp -, and then I’ll finish. |
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| No - retorted Calvino. - You begin; each one of us will formulate a rule alternately, and I… will define the last one. |
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| All right. Ten? |
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| Ten rules. |
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| They then began, alternately, to formulate rules for the game they had just played, each one of them trying to define the rules in such a way that, albeit a posteriori, they would emerge the winner. |
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