Synchronicity

While I blog at you furiously today, I just wanted to share a happy series of literary accidents that have recently made me smile.

I read If on a winter's night a traveler... by Italo Calvino which I had planned to gut and steal and make a play out of. Some might call this an homage.

On my recent trip to San Francisco, I picked up Natural History, a book of poems by Dan Chiasson, that I would like to gut and steal and make a play out of. (An homage, again.) In fact, I thought maybe I'd use the poems to inspire the Calvino piece.

Then, reading Chiasson's notes about the poems, they are inspired by his reading Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis. He was referred to this literature after reading "Man, the Sky, and the Elephant" by...Italo Calvino.

The world is rather welcoming to interpretation.