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Travelers return from the city of Zirma with distinct memories:
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unatic lind blac irl tering on shouting king kyscraper the h a crowd puma nice, a leash. a blind black man shouting in the crowd,
a lunatic teetering on a skyscraper’s cornice,
a girl walking with a puma on a leash.
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Actually, gniklamany w lrof igthe a blind men who tap citheir tanucanes l a on Zirma’skobblestones calb dnilb a n o a m u p a h t i w n o g n i r e t t mad; all nilunatics gnituospend hs nam are black; in every skyscraper there is someoneee going .hsael a s’reparcsyks a ,dworc eht hours on cornices; there is no puma that,some ecinrgirl oc does not raise, as a whim.
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senotselbbo s’amriZ no senac rieht pat ohw nem dnilb eht fo ynam ,yllautcA dneps scitanul lla ;dam gniog enoemos si ereht reparcsyks yreve ni ;kcalb era .mihw a sa ,esiar ton seod lrig emos taht amup on si ereht ;secinroc no sruoh
Actually, many of the blind men who tap their canes on Zirma’s obblestones are black; in every skyscraper there is someone going mad; all lunatics spend hours on cornices; there is no puma that some girl does not raise, as a whim.
The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.
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I too am returning from Zirma:
Tamara
Zora
Despina
Zirma
Isaura Isaura
Moriana Moriana Esmeralda Esmeralda
Irene Irene Argia Argia Clarice Clarice
Zobeide Zobeide
Thekla Thekla
Olivia Olivia
Octavia Octavia
Sophronia Sophronia
Phyllis Phyllis Ersilia Ersilia
Maurilia Maurilia
Eusapia Eusapia
Baucis Baucis Hypatia Hypatia
Trude Trude
Adelma Adelma Eutropia Eutropia
Fedora Fedora
Perinth Perinth
Beersheba Beersheba Pyrrha Pyrrha Leonia Leonia Leandra Leandra
Armilla Armilla
Zoe Zoe
Procopi Procopi
Olinda Olinda
Eudoxia Eudoxia Zemrude Zemrude
Chloe Chloe
Zenobia Zenobia
Berenic Berenic
Theodor Theodor
Penthes Penthes
Marozia Marozia
Cecilia Cecilia
Andria Andria
Laudomi Laudomi
Melania Melania Aglaura Aglaura
Valdrada Valdrada
Raissa Raissa
. tsixe ot nigeb nac ytic eht taht os sngis staeper ti :tnadnuder si y romeM Euphemia Euphemia
My traveling companions, on the other hand, swear they saw only one dirigible hovering among the city’s spires, only one tattooo artist arranging needles and inks and pierced patters on his bench, only one fat woman fanning herself on a train’s platform. my memory includes dirigibles flying in all directions, at window level; streets of shows where tattoos are drawn on sailors’ skin; underground trains crammed with obese women suffering from the humidity.
Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.
si yromis eM Memory :tnadnuder redundant: staeper ti it repeats taht osos sthat ngis signs nacity c ytican c eht the beginottonigeb
Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.
Zirma: An Invisible Cities Chapter Text by Italo Calvino Design by Betsy Medvedovsky
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