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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Quick, Quick, Slow...



Calvino's idea of quickness to me sparked a rather well know image and story, The Tortoise and the Hare.

Now, nearly everyone knows this story, the hare challenges the tortoise to a race and the over confident bunny takes a nap while the Tortoise comes home for the win. You learn that slow and steady wins the race and that everyone can be beaten, no matter how good you think you are.

To me, the concept that shows us quickness is the idea of Slow and Steady wins the race. The fact that Calvino speaks to us about the fluidity and quickness that is needed to be a writer, however the biggest point that seems to be forgotten is he doesn't ever condemn the idea of slow and steady.He even says that there is a time and place for it.

Just as in the story, the tortoise may have been slow, but he was also hard working and didn't give up. While the Hare, caught up in his bragging, lost the race in the end do to over confidence. Calvino wasn't telling us not to be quick, but he was telling us there is a time and place for that quickness and that need to speed along.

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