Invisible city-polyhedral world

There are many different cities in Calvino's works. Generally speaking, it can be divided into two categories, one is a city that still lets desire determine appearance after vicissitudes of life, and the other is a city that has been obliterated and obliterated by desire. There is a classic dialogue about this:

Kublai Khan asked Kyle Poirot: Compare the city to a badge. If one day I am familiar with all the badges, can I really have my empire?

Kelpolo replied: Don't do this, King Khan. On that day, you will be just one of many badges. Although there are 10000 cities in the world, each city has its own unique symbol.

You must have never seen a city like dorothea. The city is divided into nine districts. Interestingly, school-age women in each district will marry teenagers in another district, and the two families will exchange their own patented goods, such as lemons and amethyst, from which people can infer the past, present and future of the city and get any answer you want.

In Dior Milla, there are more than 60 silver domes, bronze statues of all pillars along paved streets, a crystal theater and a golden rooster crowing on the tower every morning. Zola rises from six rivers and three mountains. This is a city that no one can forget when he sees it. It's not special at all, but it can keep your eyes fixed. The pool of the Jiugu Fountain, the glass tower of the Planetarium, the stall selling melons, the stone lion of the hermit, the coffee shop on the street … There are so many things that each of us wants to remember.

This is Despina, a city between two deserts. On the horizon of the plateau, you ride a camel and look at the spires of skyscrapers, radar antennas, fluttering red and white wind bags and cigarette butts. Walking towards the scattered palm trees and this desert oasis, this is a refuge for travelers in the desert. In zhimama, you can see blind black people shouting in the bushes, crazy people swinging on the eaves of skyscrapers, and women walking with jaguars. In fact, everyone in every skyscraper is crazy, and all crazy people will stay on the cornices for hours. Besides, there is not a jaguar that is not a woman. Keep it for fun. Because it wants people to remember the city, it shows its various signs over and over again to affirm the existence of the city.

Isola, the city of a thousand wells, is said to be built in a deep underground lake. Residents here can collect water by connecting a vertical hole. Under the chalk sky of rocks, hidden water waves are the driving force of every living thing under the sun. Genovia is a city built on stilts, and its houses are made of bamboo and zinc plates. Brackets of different heights support many pavilions, and ladders and suspended aisles are connected with each other. At its top, there is a conical roof observation platform, a water storage bucket and a weather vane. Valdera is a city built by the ancients by the lake. Houses with balconies and overlapping streets are surrounded by iron fences on both sides of the lake. Here you can see two cities, one is an upright lake, and the other is a reflection in the lake. Because residents know that their every move will immediately become a reflection in the mirror, they have special respect for their image.

If we describe Olivia, which is rich in products, it has a palace inlaid with gold and silver and tassels of straight lattice windows, but the saddle room that smells of leather, the canal running water that drives the mill car, and the house full of soot and lampblack are itself. Octavia, also known as the city of cobwebs, is a city with ropes, chains and boards on the cliff between two steep mountains. It is both a road and a support. At your feet, there are thousands of feet of empty space, a few clouds float by, and further down is the bottom of the abyss. Utopia is the most respected city, which is a general term for many cities with similar areas. If one day you are tired of work, family, house, life, family and debt. You can move to the empty city next door, start over, start a new job, start a new family, and talk about a new life with new friends. Every time you move, you live again. Some people live thousands of lives all their lives.

Osabia is a carefree city. In addition, in order to buffer the sudden change from birth to death, its residents built the same underground city. When people die, they dehydrate the bodies and take them to the underground city so that they can continue their activities before they die. It is said that the living and the dead are inseparable between the two cities. However, Lotomiya is not characterized by twins but triplets. The third Lotomiya- the unborn city, the nature of twins is well known. In the unborn city, people here have too many problems. In order to affirm himself, the living Luogong has to take risks and seek his own comments.

There is a city in the distance, which is the farthest place that Kyle Polo has been. There, you may meet those dead people. Calvino wrote in the article: At some point in life, among the people you know, there will be more dead people than alive people. At this time, you will refuse to accept more faces and more expressions. Because every new face you meet is an old face. The name of this city is Adelma.

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Pierre Bruno has a belief passed down from generation to generation: the noblest things in a city are virtue and affection. This book is like a maze and a game.