Calvino

‘Do you like having a Boswell?’, I ask W. – ‘W. is a fiction. He’s not me’, says W. ‘I have to explain that to people.’ – ‘Do you like how I give you the best lines?’ – ‘Yes why do you do that? God, stop writing down everything I say. You’re even writing this down, aren’t you? It’s turning into a fucking Calvino novel!’