Cities of Memory
My Circa Trade site (so old) is run through with Calvino's Invisible Cities. Picking it up again this morning, I can't help it, seems that this one will be too.
"When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city.
Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral sea shells, where perfect violins and telescopes are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third...
He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference.
The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man; he arrived at Isidora in his old age.
In the square there is a wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in the row with them.
Desires are already memories."
From Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities
C
(Until I start traveling again, driven to quotes...)
"When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city.
Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral sea shells, where perfect violins and telescopes are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third...
He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference.
The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man; he arrived at Isidora in his old age.
In the square there is a wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in the row with them.
Desires are already memories."
From Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities
C
(Until I start traveling again, driven to quotes...)
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