Dissolving the solidity of the world

Back to thinking about lightness. (Because Sherry Kramer was both unflappable enough and nice enough to invite me to sit in on her class discussion of Calvino, in response to my jumping out of my car to ask her "just one more thing" after her Austin Scriptworks workshop on visual metaphor and magical objects. )

Calvino: Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

I just want to go meditate on that with my draft in front of me. How to dissolve the solidity of the world onstage? What knowledge of the world do my characters have? Or seek? How do (or don't) the characters dissolve the solidity of the world? What properties are left after the dissolution? I don't want to think about puddles -- more the dissipation of breath that the Wednesday night meditation teacher asked us to visualize ...