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ITALO CALVINO
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                    [ArticleID] => 1244473
                    [Title] => Spring-cleaning in October
                    [Summary] => 

When October started, I found myself doing some spring-cleaning, an activity I normally do after the Feast of the Epiphany in January. But one day, I couldn’t wait to take out some clutter in my room. I was surprised at the worth of wisdom I discovered in my closet.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134888 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Allure [SectionUrl] => allure [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 727376 [Title] => Acquiring the art of the daily indulgence [Summary] =>

It is completely impossible to own it all, but to totally abstain from admiring better things is a bit of denial.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => YStyle [SectionUrl] => ystyle [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 227285 [Title] => Speed-reading ‘The Subterraneans’ [Summary] => A typical scenario where a reader is swept by the magical power of a book and considers it as one of his favorites is purchasing a title (learned and heard from a friend or those people he reads) from a bookstore. He then brings it home with him where he can relish its content, probably with his feet prop up on a coffee table.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1307454 [AuthorName] => Ern Banawa [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 183955 [Title] => Ode to Verses [Summary] =>
( First of three parts )
Penthesilea, Raissa, Octavia, Olinda, Eufemia, Perenthia, Ersilia and Baucis. These are my chosen cities from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. In that book, Marco Polo described to the aging Kublai Khan 55 cities in the Great Khan’s empire. Each tale would leave you breathless not for the sights but for the extraordinary dimensions they reveal about a place in an empire’s map. [DatePublished] => 2002-11-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133961 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249681 [AuthorName] => DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) ) )
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