From Invisible Cities:
"The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there; and he retraced the stages of his journeys, and he came to know the port from which he had set sail, and the familiar places of his youth, and the surroundings of home, and a little square of Venice where he gambled as a child...with so many of us traveling, about to travel, or longing to travel, this seemed so appropriate. i love, love, love the idea of renewing the past in this way.
The traveler's past changes according to the route he has follows...Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places."
image "based on invisible cities": ana vicente
3 comments:
this is SO beautiful and SO perfect, and that image is something i want desperately to carry about in my back pocket.
speaking of other beautiful, perfect things: i watched charlie the unicorn again tonight. um, yes.
he would probably be one of my writer crushes too. along with li-young lee.
mmm li young. and CHARLIE! bless that horrible unicorn's heart.
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