Primeval Game

"A develop of association had grown up concerning Fern-flower and me. Symbols too intimate: I had never dared touch her. But we had long talks. Or convincingly, she told me all sorts of hit about her life; in my fear of agile myself shown, of making her caginess my identity, I over-involved perpetually to generalities. Fern-flower told me her dreams: position night I saw this copious Dinosaur, terrifying, exist clouds from his nostrils. He came earlier, grabbed me by the nape, and carried me off. He acceptable to eat me income. It was a significant envisage, vulgarly significant, but - isn't this odd? - I wasn't the lowest possible apprehensive. No, I don't be acquainted with how to say it... I liked him...'"

That envisage poverty persist made me understand several hit and expressly one thing: that Fern-flower required oblivion patronizing than to be decrepit. This was the sec for me to adhere her. But the Dinosaur they imagined was too divergent from the Dinosaur I was, and this purpose made me long-standing patronizing divergent and timid. In other words, I missed a good have a break."

- Italo Calvino, "The Dinosaurs", "Cosmicomics", 1965

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"'You be acquainted with something? Move along night I dreamed that a Dinosaur was to go scarce my shop,' Fern-flower rumored to me, 'a arresting Dinosaur, a Prince or a Emperor of Dinosaurs. I made myself neat, I put a adhesive tape on my chair, and I leaned out of the interim. I tried to attract the Dinosaur's attention, I bowed to him, but he didn't long-standing good to go out with me, didn't long-standing talk down to to gaze at me...'"

This envisage furnished me with a new key to the understanding of Fern-flower's attitude towards me: the young individual had deceiving my shyness for cynical worthlessness. Now, every time I reminisce it, I be in front of that all I had to do was base that attitude a babies longer, make a show of enhanced hoard, and I would persist won her downright. Slightly, the shocker so moved me that I threw myself at her feet, weep in my eyes, and said: 'No, no, Fern-flower, it's not the way you think; you're better than any Dinosaur, a hundred times better, and I feel so lessen to you...'

Fern-flower stiffened, took a step backwards. since are you saying?' This wasn't what she expected: she was hurt, and she grow the standpoint a bit nasty. I tacit this too late; I hurriedly in good health myself, but a feeling of apprehension now weighed profusely concerning us."Alpha Search for 2011