*”Stories are the most durable texture of life for us. Not

“Stories are the most durable texture of life for us. Not forms of societies, but stories. Stories are really what keeps everything together, in a way. When you are abandoned by stories – when you go back beyond the invention of writing, beyond the literary tradition – you feel of course lost: because one needs stories.”

Have you read your Roberto Calasso? F*ck you, go get The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. Or, Literature and the Gods. Or his latest, La Folie Baudelaire, which Elizabeth Bachner wrote about. Calasso is a gem, and he is profiled at the Independent.