*Calvino concludes: "If I can still talk about it today like a lost privilege it’s because something disappeared like that from my life, never to return again. So many things had changed after the war was over: I’d changed, cinema had become something else, something different in itself and in relation to me. My biography as a spectator resumed, but it was that of another spectator who wasn’t just a spectator anymore."
*In a roughly similar way, one can still have paperback books, magazines and vinyl records. But we're not the same people that we were when paperback books, magazines and vinyl records were dominant mainstays of popular culture. It's my privilege to remember a world like that, but it's a lost privilege.
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/aug/29/movies-my-youth-calvino/
