A more complex symbol, one that gave me the greatest opportunity to express the tension between geometric rationality and the tangle of human lives, is that of the city. The book in which I think I’ve had the most to say remains Invisible Cities, because I was able to focus all my reflections and experiences and conjectures on a single symbol. And also because I created a multifaceted structure in which each brief text sits close to others in a sequence that doesn’t suggest causality or hierarchy but rather a network within which one can follow multiple paths and come to various ramified
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