In my junior year at the University of South Carolina, I studied under Tyke Nunez, who taught a class titled the philosophers of lightness and weight. Centered on Italo Calvino’s six memos for the next millennium, we explored Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and Philosophy in the tragic age of the Greeks, Simone Weil’s Waiting for God (and letters), Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita. In short, he argued that each of these philosophers exemplified in various ways Calvino’s values of lightness and weight.