Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Reportage Post One /Invisible Cities Prompt

This is based off of an excerpt from Invisible Cities by Calvino.

If you believe anything, believe that the glass covers the seventh century and the second century.
I could tell you of the girl in the library wearing a pink bubble vest, who sits on an iron precipice between today and yesterday, but Spoleto is two cities. The first, a Roman Amphitheater, bathhouse, and frescoed Papal home turned library, where fountains spout water from an aqueduct made for crossing and trading potted goods. A city covered by the second, a modernized version of the first, where town hall councils fight to tear down old, bring up new, move past the history and find America in the plastic cafe chairs, in the hamburgers, in the coke light vending machines. Refurbished, upholstered, translated.

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