ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to quote from the Memos, is 'visionary and realistic, both together'. It proposes a reading of the most subtle elements of Six Memos by aligning them with some selected works of the artist Paul Klee and the cosmicomic tales of Italo Calvino. Calvino dedicated considerable time and energy throughout his career, to questions of literature and art. The liberty, lightness, speed, and accuracy that Calvino extols in Six Memos for the Next Millennium and which previously had formed the basis of his Cosmicomic stories, are made visible in Paul Klee's work. The structural rhythm of Calvino's works is a balancing act between weightlessness, celerity, metaphor, mathematics, the movement from to there where the voyage outweighs the importance of the destination. Calvino transforms this potential energy into ephemeral essences, millenary dreams that he wished would permeate the modern morass and elevate humanity to its natural, primal vigour.
