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When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished. Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or a crumbling Roman column—tell us about the greater truths of the world, space and time.