Status Updates From Les villes invisibles

And Marco's answer was: "Elsewhere is a negative mur-ror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his. discovering the much be has not had and will never have."

Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist. (zirma)

This city which cannot be expunged from the mind is like an armature, a honeycomb in whose cells each of us can place the things he wants to remember: names of famous men, vir-tues, numbers, vegetable and mineral classifications, dates of battles, constellations, parts of speech.