1. 序言書室（旺角）是由幾位中大哲學系畢業同學合資經營，六月五日初次探訪，買下 calvino 的自傳雜文 hermit in paris 以作支持。
2. 灰黑封面，想起六十年代的中環。 雲咸街的南華早報大廈、皇后大道中兩旁的商業建築，不也是灰灰濛濛的大麻石牆身？ 雖然平淡呆板，卻又平實穩重，有歐陸意象，迷離倒錯。 不知怎地，也想起英瑪褒曼 wild strawberries 死寂街角馬車飄然而至一幕。
3. 他第一次寫巴黎，自覺尷尬。
maybe to write about paris i ought to leave, to distance myself from it, if it is true that all writing starts out from a lack or absence. or else be more inside it, but for that i would need to have lived there from when i was young, if it is true that it is the first years of our existence, not the places of our maturity, that shape the world of our imagination. or rather: a place has to become an inner landscape for the imagination to start to inhabit that place, to turn it into its theatre.
4. italo calvino（1923-1985）在古巴出生，意大利的 san remo 長大。 當德國在第二次世界大戰佔據意大利北部時，他是游擊隊成員，這段經歷成為小說 the path to the nest of spiders 的內容。
