Status Updates From As cidades invisíveis

Vuelvo a este libro difícil de clasificar. Me llama la atención lo poco que cuenta y aún con todo, cómo las figuras estilísticas que usa, las imágenes, las ciudades se quedan en la memoria.

and perhaps this is the germ of an immense metropolis. ...

From these data it is possible to deduce an image of the future Berenice, which will bring you closer to knowing the truth than any other information abour the city as it is seen today. You must nevertheless bear in mind what I am about to say to you: in the seed of the city of the just, a malignant seed is hid-den, in its turn: the certainty and pride of being in the right-and of being more just than many others

Instead of describing to you the perfumed pools of the baths where the unjust of Berenice recline and weave their intrigues with round eloquence and observe with a proprietary eye the rotund fesh of the bathing odalisques, I should say to you how the just, always cautious to evade the spying sycophants and the Janizaries' mass arrests, recognize one another by their way of speaking,