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The primary focus of this essay is the forms of reading proposed by contemporary, commercial magazines and books, with consideration of related concepts in pop music and electronic media. It raises the question of what it means to read and interpret when the parameters of visual and verbal signs and contexts are transient and mutable. Zelevansky asks "what does scanning, sampling, hypermedia, etc. mean for the creators and consumers of books destined for the new electronic superstore? The future of the book form is entwined with the future of reading." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This deluxe edition of the book has four additional signed gravures added to the four engravings in the ordinary edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text incorporated into reproductions of colored, collaged photographs was adapted from the book, "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Semiotic fantasy novel by Italo Calvino, published in Italian in 1973 as Il castello dei destini incrociati. It consists of a series of short tales gathered into two sections, The Castle of Crossed Destinies and The Tavern of Crossed Destinies. The novel concerns two groups of travelers through a forest, both of which have lost the power to speak as the result of traumatic events. One group is spending the night in a tavern, the other in a castle. In each place, the travelers tell the stories of their lives, using tarot cards instead of words. A narrator at each place interprets the cards for the reader, but since the tarot cards are subject to multiple interpretations, the stories the narrators offer are not necessarily the stories intended by the mute storytellers. A customer of Amazon.com wrote the following. Of the four books I have read by Calvino (all to be highly recommended for anyone who does not wish to be allowed to read passively, and who also is looking for something...