{"id":3559,"date":"2011-03-19T07:51:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T07:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/19\/as-this-wave-from-memories-flows-in-the-city\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T07:51:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T07:51:38","slug":"as-this-wave-from-memories-flows-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/19\/as-this-wave-from-memories-flows-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks up like a sponge and expands. A description of Zaira as it is today should contain all Zaira\u2019s past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Italo Calvino, Cities &amp; Memory 3, Invisible Cities (via <a href=\"http:\/\/muf.tumblr.com\/\">muf<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks up like a sponge and expands. A description of Zaira as it is today should contain all Zaira\u2019s past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-Vp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":336,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2014\/08\/23\/cities-have-often-been-compared-to-language-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":3559,"position":0},"title":"Cities have often been compared\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"August 23, 2014","format":"quote","excerpt":"Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it\u2019s said, as you read a book. 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