la ville et la memoire – cities and memory
“in maurilia, the traveller is invited to visit the city and, at the same time, to examine some old post cards that show it as it used to be: … a bandstand in the place of the overpass, two young ladies with parasols in the place of the munitions factory.”
italo calvino, the invisible cities, ch 2
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“suspended over the abyss, the life of octavia’s inhabitants is less uncertain than in other cities. they know the net will last only so long.”
italo calvino, the invisible cities, ch 5
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continued from tome 1 /zurich.
continued in tome 3 /zobeide.
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