The invisible cities of Calvino �� Chapter VII _siko

The seventh chapter of Kublai Khan: I don't know how to find time to travel to those countries you speak. I think you have been away from the garden. Apollo: what I see, what I have done in a spirit of space are meaningful, the space with the same tranquility, here the same half Dim light, there are also mixed leaves rustle of silence. In focus on meditation, while at the same time continuing to spend the full Green Crocodile River or in the count of the number of barrels of pickled fish into the hold, I found myself in this garden, in the twilight of the moment squiring around King Khan. Kublai Khan: I'm not sure they really are in the garden of porphyry fountain walk, listen to the spring between the splashing of sound, or covered with sweat stains coloring in leading troops to attack you at once in the future to my description of the land or to climb brandished a knife and cut wall siege enemy. Polo: maybe this garden is in our drooping eyelids of shadows, but we've been busy with something else: you play in the battle to rise from the dust, I am in the market for the sale of pepper. But even in noisy fuss, we close our eyes will go back to here, on a silk robe, thinking of our knowledge and life, to conclusions and observations from a distance. Kublai Khan: our dialogue, perhaps is the nickname Kublai and Marco Polo's two call of dialogue; they are strumming a garbage, rusty scrap iron pot, cloth, paper, drinking too many inferior wine, enabling them to see the entire East of intoxication of the treasure in the shining light of health around. Apollo: the whole world, perhaps only a piece of junk wasteland and khans of garden in the air. So they separated just our eyelids, but we do not know what, and what is outside. City and eyes of five Wade across the River, the mountain road, friction, Anna city suddenly appear in your eyes, in the sunshine, it's snowflake Shicheng door be transparent its coral pillar racks with inlaid ornament of the serpentine, it's the housing is made of glass, like the Aquarium, some with silver squamous cell of the dancing girl's shadow in jellyfish-shaped chandelier River to swim. Even if not the first time to travel, you already know, like a city always corresponds to the surface: you only have around half a circle can see friction in Anna hidden faces �� a large corrosion of metal, sack cloth, inserting the nails of the wood, covered with coal pipe, piles of spray cans, fading signs hanging wall, breaking the frame, Wicker Chair only suitable for hanging in the rotten beams of the rope. From one side to the other side, the city's image appears to be in constant propagation: while it is in fact no thickness, only one positive and one negative, like two-face has a picture of a piece of paper, two pictures can neither separate nor on. City and name of Carat Liz, glorious city, a painful history, it after several times of ups and downs, always to the original Carat Liz as incomparable brilliance mode, go to the urban landscape of today, only in the Starlight Dim caused more sighs. In the centuries of decline, the city because the plague and empty, inclining beams and canopies, the terrain changes, so that the former palatial not longer, due to the negligence or unattended, deserted blocked; then, escape disaster robbed man gradually from the cellar and run out of the cave, the mouse-like streets, full search and gnawed by hunger and thirst, but also as a nesting bird collection and fill drop. They hold all available objects, moving to different places for different uses: Brocade curtains into bed, marble bones jar to use to seed the boudoir of perilla Frutescens; iron flowers down to roast the cat meat, Seiko mosaic of wood used to make a fire. The carat Liz everything useless odds and together, they become the aftermath of the KELA Liz, cottage, rotten conduits, free child cage. However, Carat Liz old glory almost wholly preserved; are all there, although the order changed, but still like the same line with the needs of the residents. Poverty day in the past, then is a good time; KELA Liz from lan House, pupa, and Butterfly metamorphosis is gorgeous. The new wealth that the new urban flood overflow projects, housing, materials; new �� people from Chung came in; each piece, each person, with the former Carat Liz. New City gradually ease under the old Carat Liz's position and name, but also come to realize increasingly farther away from it and like mouse and moulds, destroy it. New city although the pride for the new wealth, private but feel like a foreigner who does not deserve lining, is deposed. Then, preserved old debris and changed the location to the new needs. Today, they are in Velvet cushion to save in glass following and lock in the shop, not because they are useful, just to let people with them and then building a has no one knows of the town. KELA Liz have gone more decline and revival. Population and customs also changed many times, but the name, location, and not broken items still remain. Each new Carat Liz as live animals, each has its own tichou and breath, which breaking down, dead Carat Liz possessions as treasures, to show off. Nobody knows what Greece-stigma when decorated its column: only a stigma makes people remember, as it has for many years in a farm to use to sing live hen's basket, then together with don't some exhibits the Museum moved to the stigma. These historical periods appear in the order in which they have already lost; most people believe, there had been the first Carat Liz, but there is no evidence. Moved into the temple before the stigma might originally in farms, marble jars may originally be kind of perilla, later changed to Sheng bones. Only one thing for sure: some number of objects in a room to move up to move to, sometimes some new objects covering, sometimes worn out and was not replaced; rule is always to reduce confusion and then together. Maybe Carat Liz has always been a specious confusion, combined with poor and outdated. Cities and the souls of there is no other city like Europe's horse-then tend to enjoy a carefree life. In order to buffer the students to death mutation, it had a population of exactly the underground city, all specially dewatering treatment body retains a yellow skin and bones, to wrap into the underground city to continue his activities. AboutThe nature of the activity, the primary consideration is the deceased during most of the time and peace of mind: most body sitting next to the dinner table, or dance, or wind instruments. Living Europe's horse-industry and professional, in the underground city also operates �� at least, are those of health and never tired to management industry: watchmaker in orbit around the side of those who are no longer around the clock, the dry ears leaned away sounds old grandfather pendulum clock; actor open empty eyes read the script, and Barber holds dry brush in his face SOAP; laughing woman skull in the body of a small DOE bovine milk juice. In fact, many people want to live after the death of another life: cemetery was full of Hunter, soprano, bankers, violinist, Duchess, Maid, General--and that number is a living city never achieve. Send the deceased to the underground city and the location for their arrangement, is wearing a hood Hat a brotherhood. Apart from them, no one can enter the souls of Europe's horse, the underground city of all the data is traveling from them. Some people say that the deceased in the same nature of brotherhood organization, and are willing to help others. Wear a cover CAP's brother, died in another OU Sara horse-engaged in the same work; legend has it that some of them actually died, but still continue to go down. Anyway, in the living Europe Sara horse Asia, this brother is the one who holds power. It is said that they each time to the following European Sara horse Asia to find that some of the time; the dead in their own town also; not much, but after serious consideration, and not just to behave himself. Some say that the souls of the EU's horse-a year is defacing. In order to catch up with the trend alive under a hood Hat brothers say situation following the Undead to change. In this way, the living ' Sara horse-have begun to mimic the underground city. It is said, it's not just happened: the ground Europe's horse, and in fact is a person who has died in accordance with the image of the underground city. It is said in the twin cities, living and dead are inseparable. City and sky II blaps Walch, there is a belief from generation to generation: the city of most noble virtues and feeling, are maintained in the air of another blaps Walch Bari, if ground blaps Walch, follow the example of the city of heaven, two city will be merged. According to the legend of a purest precious city, silver and diamond door, everything is precision tessellation, because the use of the most precious materials must rely on the most meticulous skills. Blaps Walch Palestinian residents in good faith believe that the legend, they respect all possible with Sky City-related stuff: they save precious metals and rare stone, all their disdain secular propagation mattress, they developed a subtle manners. These people also believe that there is a underground the other blaps Walch, concealed all the ugly things mean, they often taken pains to eliminate with underground city-related or similar things. In their imagination, the roof of the underground city is spilled trash, spread cheese skin and oily fish head, paper, waste water, leftover pasta, filthy bandages. They even think it is a kind of adhesive, thick, greasy black substance, like a sewer discharges of soil in humans, the flow from a black hole, another black hole to the bottom straight until the layers of sediment risk bubble bubble, and a dung city with crooked spire rises. Blaps Greek bus city these ideas, have a right and wrong. The city does have two projection, one in heaven, and one in the ground; but residents are confused, the structure of the existing potential in pazhou Walch, the bottom layer of a seat is the most authoritative architect of the city, with the most valuable materials into each instrument plant and machinery is operated in a flexible manner, each pipeline and lever are decorated with sui wool, lace and tassels. In order to get greater perfection, pazhou Walch, continue to fill their empty shell, such as virtues of fanaticism; this city does not know that it is only left to itself, let go, let myself stretching, is free at all times. However, pazhou Walch, above also do have a celestial bodies running, all wealth issued cities �� abandoned treasures-light: a planet with a waft of potato peels, broken umbrellas, old socks, candy paper, used electric ticket, cut nails, Cocoon skin, eggshell, this is a city in the sky, across the sky in the long tail Comet, the people of Palestine Walch blaps only free happy behavior emerges, this is a mean, small, greedy city, the only exception is when the stool in it. Connected cities RI will change after every day for their newly installed: residents every day in the new sheets and new wake up between the sheets, just unpack the wrapping SOAP wash, wear new clothes, from the latest model of the fridge out canned is not open, listening to the most modern radio latest music. Abandoned roadside is yesterday's RI will Asia, wrapped in a clean plastic bag for refuse collection vehicles. Apart from a tube of toothpaste, squeezing too bad light bulbs, newspaper, bottles, paper, boiler, encyclopedic dictionary, piano, porcelain tableware. To assess how will Asian in fertile, just watch it daily production, sales and purchases are not enough, but at the same time watching it every rehousing in order to make room for new products and drop much. Then, you start to speculate, RI will ya real pleasure is the so-called enjoy new things or abandoned, clear, fine NET recurring contamination, in fact, they welcome the scavenger like welcome Angel, in full respect of silent moved vestiges of yesterday, it seems to be enough to stimulate religious devotion of a ceremony, but maybe because people dropped after you won't want them. Nobody thought that their spam per day moved to where to go. Transported to the city, of course, but in the mid-cities expanded, scavenger must go away. Increase MSW, garbage is also high, at a broader perimeter layer in the heap. Moreover, in the new article will Asia manufacturing capacity more progress, garbage, the higher the level of quality, stood the test of time and a natural phenomenon, not stale, not combustion. RI will Asia around garbage becomes unbreakable bastion, like mountains from around shrug. The result: will throw in more of Asia, the more also accumulated in; it's the last Flake has become a de-Fusion is not out of the Cuirass. City side daily updates, to remain in the unique can determineOf the form: yesterday's waste heap on the day before yesterday and more distant waste. Where will the little garbage can invade other people's world, however, in its most perimeter of slopes, don't some urban scavenger have also introduced a mountain of garbage. In addition, the border will Asia throughout the world may have filled the crater, each surrounded by a continuous eruption of the city. Separated by a hostile alien city, is affected by erosion redoubt, relying on each other's debris intermixed support each other. The higher the garbage accumulates, the greater the risk of collapse: as long as a tin can, an old tyres or a chalice will roll in Asia, will cause a big collapse depression: unpaired shoes, old calendar, remnant flower; while the city attempts to get rid of the last continuously and mixed with the neighbouring cities of the past, would have buried. Such a disaster from the dirty mountain razed to the ground, erasing a daily wrap up all the traces. In a nearby town, they are ready to open machine, waiting for leveling the land extended to the new territories, the scavenger drive farther. Marco Polo: from this garden terrace looking on, maybe see our heart Lake ... Kublai Khan: whatever we as soldiers and merchants of arduous task brings us to what place, we also maintain this tablets calm shade, this intermittent dialogue, this will never change. Polo: unless we ought to have done the opposite hypothesis: on the battlefield and port wrestles exist because we are two people �� since perpetuates the stationary �� in this bamboo fence was mindful of them. Kublai Khan: unless the labor crying out, cut, and the smell is not present, only the plex. Polo: unless the Porter, stonemasons, scavenger, clean the chicken lung Cook, Shi yi women beside Wun, while cooking side feeding the baby's mother is there, just because we think of them in mind. Kublai Khan: tell the truth, I never want to these people. Polo: that is, they do not exist. Kublai Khan: I think this assumption does not seem to meet our objectives. Without these people we cannot lay in the hammock swinging. Polo: we must reject this assumption. In other words, another hypothesis is correct: they exist, we do not exist. Kublai Khan: we have proven that if we are here, we would not exist. Polo: in fact, we are here.