Citations:mandala


 * 1977 &mdash; Your character meant you for abstract mental speculation: it is no accident that the Page of Coins portrays you absorbed in the contemplation of a circular drawing: perhaps the mandala, diagram of an ultraterrestrial harmony. &mdash; Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Part 2, Chapter 8, 1969. Translated from Italian by William Weaver.