1.
When we started betting there wasn't anything yet that might lead you to foresee anything, except for a few particles spinning around, some electrons scattered here and there at random, and protons all more or less on their own.
- <cosmicomics> by italo calvino
2.
I began to combine predictions of the most immediately and easily calculated events with others that required extremely complicated operations.
- <cosmicomics> by italo calvino
3.
"Signorina Giuseppina Pensotti, aged twenty-two, leaves her home at quarter to six in the afternoon: does she turn right or left?"
"Arsenal-Real Madrid, semifinals. Arsenal playing at home. Who wins?,"
"Qfwfq, look at Pompey! He lost out to Caesar after all! I told you so!"
- <cosmicomics> by italo calvino
4.
And I think how beautiful it was then, through that void, to draw lines and parabolas, pick out the precise point, the intersection between space and time where the event would spring forth, undeniable in the prominence of its glow; whereas now events come flowing down without interruption, like cement being poured, one column next to the other, one within the other, separated by black and incongruous headlines, legible in many ways but intrinsically illegible, a doughy mass of events without form or direction, which surrounds, submerges, crushes all reasoning.
- <cosmicomics> by italo calvino
