Finished #InvisibleCities
#ItaloCalvino

KUBLAI: …however far our troubled enterprises…take us,we both harbor within ourselves this silent shade…
POLO: Unless…those who strive in camps and ports exist only because we two think of them…
KUBLAI: …I never think them.
POLO: Then they do not exist.

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KUBLAI: …visit all the countries…you have never moved from this garden…
POLO: Everything I see and do assumes meaning in a mental space…
KUBLAI: I, too, am not sure I am here…
POLO: Perhaps this garden exists only in the shadow of our lowered eyelids…

Life In Flux, by Invisible Cities from the album Invisible Cities

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Invisible Cities:
🎵 Life In Flux

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“So then, yours is truly a journey through memory!" The Great Khan…sat up in his hammock every time he caught the hint of a sigh in Marco's speech… “You return from your voyages with a cargo of regrets…confess what you are smuggling: moods, states of grace, elegies!"

Cathedral of…, by Invisible Cities 4 track album

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Invisible Cities:
🎵 Cathedral Of...

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▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

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Kublai Khan interrupted him…”Does your journey take place only in the past?"
All this so that Marco Polo could explain…the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey…the traveler's past changes according to the route he has followed…

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But the special quality of this city for the man who arrives there on a September evening…that he feels envy toward those who now believe they have once before lived an evening identical to this and who think they were happy, that time.

Death Toll, by Invisible Cities from the album Invisible Cities

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Invisible Cities:
🎵 Death Toll

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#Games #AI #Literature #KI #Literatur #bluelz #genAI #genKI #Calvino #InvisibleCities
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Kicking the year off: #InvisibleCities feels like wandering the streets of every city I've visited & of my imagination. #Shadowplay adds the fuel to my ever burning fire for the #Balkans. Speaker with no music bc I need my full focus to soak this all in.
#ItaloCalvino #booksky #ArmchairTravel

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Invisible Cities: Tourism in Virtual Worlds - As technology blurs the line between real and digital, tourism is expanding into virtual worlds. Could the next vacation be entirely online?

Invisible Cities: Tourism in Virtual Worlds wiobs.com/invisible-ci... #VirtualTourism #InvisibleCities #MetaverseTravel #FutureOfTourism

Last Thursday, we wandered with #InvisibleCities from Govan to #UofG
We crossed the Govan-Partick bridge, paused at a bee garden, spotted blackberries tumbling over a wall. A butterfly landed just long enough for us to notice.
Walking slowly, paying attention & sharing biscuits together at the end.

I’ve loved Calvino’s work since I was introduced to If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler. This one struck me as prose in poetry form. Beautiful. A very wild premise of Kublai Khan and Marco Polo hanging around discussing cities Polo has explored. Loved it.
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20 authors you’d recommend to a friend. One author per day, no particular order.

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11/20: Italo Calvino

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As requested partial photo of #mugs with #InvisibleCities by the god, #ItaloCalvino
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Just finished listening to the audio book - incredibly imaginative tales. However, wished I'd read it to better contemplate at my own pace. May just have to in a year or so! #Rereading #Calvino #InvisibleCities #Place #Architecture #Living

I unintentionally created a shadow cityscape in my bedroom.

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Updates to our adaptation on the Great City of Octavia!

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#dnd #osr #worldbuilding #italocalvino #invisiblecities #fantasy #art #gaming #indie #ttrpg #climbing #atlantis #folk

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City of chimney roofs by Alexandru Crisan https://www.artlimit
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20:
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.

12/20: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

14/20

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Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities book cover

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

7/20

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#invisiblecities
#booksky
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Sketchbookin 31! The #ItaloCalvino book #InvisibleCities is easily my favorite piece of fiction. In it there’s a city with an above ground section for the living and a below ground section for the dead and it’s unclear which mirrors which. #sketchbook #moleskine #fantasyart #ruinlust

Sketchbookin 24 (not starting the numbering over, too confusing for me 😆) Tourists. #Ruins hold a special attraction to me both aesthetically, historically and, for lack of a better term “psychically” #sketchbook #drawing #imaginary #landscapes #invisiblecities

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
7/20

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You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask. - #ItaloCalvino, in #InvisibleCities

Clarice — Claudia Frost Encaustic paint on wood 30 cm x 30 cm "Clarice, the glorious city , has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then burgeoned again, always keeping the first Clarice as an unparalleled mod...

“Clarice, the glorious city, has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then burgeoned…

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