*quotes from Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”
“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets... every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations...�
“...the more one is lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understands the other cities he crossed to arrive there; and he retraces the stages of his journeys, and he comes to know the port from which he had set sail...�
“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchanges their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.�
“I speak and speak, but the listener retains only the words he is expecting.�
“...it is not the voice that commands the story it is the ear.�
“Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
andré baumecker / ©
AndrĂŠ Baumecker 2011