Posts

Italo Calvino Marcovaldo, Ch. 1- Mushrooms in the city 依塔羅卡爾維諾小說選 馬可瓦多-城市裡的蘑菇 3/7

  Tuesday March April May June 3/7  IC-Marcovaldo, Ch. 1- Mushrooms in the city  Italo Calvino worksheet link=  https://www.onlinereadfreebooks.com/en/Marcovaldo-791745/1   Italo Calvino Marcovaldo, Ch. 1- Mushrooms in the city 依塔羅卡爾維諾小說選 馬可瓦多-城市裡的蘑菇     SPRING   Mushrooms in the city   The wind, coming to the city from far away, brings it unusual gifts, noticed by only a few sensitive souls, such as hay-fever victims, who sneeze at the pollen from flowers of other lands.   One day, to the narrow strip of ground flanking a city avenue came a gust of spores from God knows where; and some mushrooms germinated. Nobody noticed them except Marcovaldo, the worker who caught his tram just there every morning.  This Marcovaldo possessed an eye ill-suited to city life: billboards, traffic-lights, shop-windows, neon signs, posters, no matter how carefully devised to catch the attention, never arrested his gaze, which might have been running over the desert sands. Instead, he would never miss a l