Calvino (up to "6")

what exactly is this reading? (page specifics)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DaniellaChoynowski/2008/03/sentiments_on_if_on_a_winters.html

"You cast another bewildered look at the books around you (or, rather: it was the books that looked at you, with the bewildered gaze of dogs who, from their cages in the city pound, see a former companion go off on the leash of his master, come to rescue him), and out you went." (Calvino, p.6)
My blog entry:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2008/03/el336_calvino_chapter_1_inconc.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RachelPrichard/2008/03/el_336_calvino.html#comments

"You can't wait to get your hands on a nondefective copy of the book you've begun."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaSawyer/2008/03/calvino.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DavidCristello/2008/03/oh_calvino.html

"Your attention, as reader, is now completely concentrated on the woman, already for several pages you have been circling around her, I have--no, the author has--been circling around the feminine presence, for several pages you have been expecting this female shadow to take shape the way female shadows take shape on the written page, and it is your expectation, reader, that drives the author toward her ... (Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler 21)"

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