Italo Calvino - "Cosmicomics"

"actually, this was the first opportunity I had had to think something; or I should say: to think something had never been possible, first because there were no things to think about, and second because signs to think of them by were lacking, but from the moment there was that sign, it was possible for something thinking to think of a sign, and therefore that one, in the sense that the sign was the thing you could think about and also the sign of the thing thought, namely, itself."

"Our father's cry 'We're hitting something!' a meaningless expression (since before then nothing had ever hit anything, you can be sure), but one that took on meaning at the very moment it was uttered,"

"to think something had never been possible... and also the sign of the thing though, namely itself"... where a thought of something *is* that very something.