City tells its past

"The city, however, does not tell its past,



but contains it like the signs of a hand,
written in the corners of streets,



the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps,
the antennae of the lightning rods,



the poles of the flags,
every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."

- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities