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The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

Cosmicomics BY Italo Calvino. Harvest Books. Paperback, 153 pages. $14.
Cover of Cosmicomics

In the beginning, before the Big Bang, all the matter in the universe was concentrated in a single point. Qfwfq can tell you about it: He was there. “Naturally, we were all there—where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time, either: What use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?”

Qfwfq has been a mammoth, a dinosaur, and a single cell.