An enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. Calvino makes characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves amongst galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms -- and have time for a love life. Cosmocomics is a phantasmagoria on Creation, an enchantingly ingenious idea which translates theories about the evolution of the Universe into stories and makes "characters" …
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…did it? Should he send his own sign out to the distant viewer explaining his questionable act? Should he try justification or apology? Should he request a second response? He would have to wait hundreds of millions of years for it, worrying all the while. This is the paranoid personality par excellence. It is as if Franz Kafka merged with Samuel Beckett and they were now speaking with the voice of Woody Allen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**