Clarice, glorious city, has a troubled history. More sometimes declined to reappear, always taking the first Clarice as a model of unparalleled splendor each, compared to which the present state of the city does not fail to elicit sighs at every new turn of stars. In the centuries of degradation, the city, emptied by the plague, whose height is lowered by the collapse of beams and cornices and landslides of soil, rusty and clogged because of lack of maintenance workers or holiday, it is repopulated slowly to emerge from basements and dens' s hordes of survivors who swarmed like rats driven by the frenzy of digging and gnawing, and also to scrape and patch together, like birds that nest. Cling to all that could be taken to where it was and put in another place to serve to another use: the curtains of brocade sheets from ended up doing, in marble urns planted basil, the wrought iron grills uprooted from the windows of the harem were used to roast meat on a cat-inlaid wood fires. Put up with odd pieces of Clarice useless, took a form of survival Clarice, all slums and shanties, gutters infected, crates of rabbits. Yet the ancient splendor of Clarice had not lost almost nothing, it was all there, just placed in a different order but appropriate to the needs of the people no less than before. At the time most joyous times of need were happening: a sumptuous slipped by Clarice Clarice butterfly chrysalis beggar, the new abundance the city was overflowing with new material objects buildings, new people streamed out, nothing and no one had more to do with or Clarice Clarice of the first, and most triumphantly sets up the new city at the place and name of the first Clarice , he realized most of away from, not to destroy less rapidly than the mice and mold: despite the new pride of pomp, in his heart he felt strange, incongruous, usurper. Here then is the glory of the first pieces that were saved by adapting to need more dark were moved again, here they are kept under glass bells, closed boards, laid on velvet cushions, and not because they could serve more in something, but because through them we would have liked to rebuild a city that nobody knew anything. Other deterioration, others bloom is followed to Clarice. The people and customs changed several times, remain the name, location, and items more difficult to break. Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with his and her breath smells, it shows as a jewel that remains of the ancient Clarici fragmented and death. No one knows when the Corinthian capitals have been in the top of their columns: only one of them remembers that for many years supported the basket in a poultry house where the chickens were eggs, and passes them to the Museum of the Capitals, in line with the other specimens in the collection. The order of succession of the ages has been lost, that there has been a first Clarice is widely believed, but there is no evidence that the show, the capitals may have been the first in the hen houses and in temples, urns of marble have been first sown basil in the bones of the dead. What is certain is only that: a number of objects moving in a certain area, now submerged by a number of new objects, time consuming without replacement, the rule is every time and try to mix them together. Perhaps Clarice has always been just a clatter of junk chipped, mismatched, out of order.
by: The Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
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