continuity of parks

Daniele, this is a kind of journal for use by my friends in Italy. Einaudi receives a private copy of it at his home, but this copy is public, except for the strictly publishing details which you can cut out and pass on to Foà; the rest of it you can keep in a folder, for consultation by all colleagues, and also by friends and visitors who want to read it, so that this hoard of experiences that I am accumulating becomes part of the heritage of the nation.

--Italo Calvino, American Diary, 1959-60