<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549737" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Daughters Of The Moon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">DAUGHTERS OF THE MOON</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In “Daughters of the Moon, ”<br>the moon falls to the earth, <br>and ends up very soon<br>where there's not a dearth<br>of ladies in a park<br>who, working with a spanner, <br>dance, nakedly quite stark<br>each one of them Diana, <br>abandoned dancing<br>among abandoned cars, <br>which I find as entrancing<br>as Venus is to Mars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Joseph Farrell reviews Italo Calvino’s “The Complete Cosmicomics, ” translated by William Weaver, Tim Parks and Martin L. McLaughlin in the TLS, July 3,2009: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The later cosmicomic tales deal with days nearer our own times, and with people who live in places like New Jersey and drive cars, rather than plod over uncharted areas of the cosmos. It is possible to detect a darker side in the last stories. IN “Daughters of the Moon”, the moon falls to the earth, as in one of Leopardi’s poems, but this time it is in New York, and the moon ends up in a scrapyard with abandoned cars, to be greeted by a group of naked New York maidens, all called Diana. The scrapyard is as central as the burnt-out moon, and the tale is a protest against futile consumerism as well as a work of fantasy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>7/11/09</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549737" data-title="Daughters Of The Moon de Gershon Hepner" data-description="DAUGHTERS OF THE MOON In “Daughters of the Moon, ” the moon falls to the earth, and ends up very soon where there's not a dearth of ladies in a park who, working with a spanner, dance, nakedly quite stark each one of them Diana, abandoned..."></div> </div> </div>

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