Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me." Polo answers: "Without stones there is no arch. (Italo Calvino)

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me." Polo answers: "Without stones there is no arch.

Italo Calvino

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