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A quarter of America is a dramatic , tense , violent country , exploding with contradictions, full of brutal , physiological vitality , and that is the America that I have really loved and love . But a good half of it is a country of boredom , emptiness , monotony , brainless production , and brainless consumption , and this is the American inferno .
Italo Calvino, in Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985, Princeton University Press, 2013, p.197 | ||