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Invisible Cities

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Cities & Memory · Chapter I Diomira city № 01 of 55 frontispiece · generated from the text Leaving there and proceeding for three days to1ward the east, you reach Diomira, a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods2, streets paved with lead, a crystal theater, a golden cock that crows every morning on a tower. All these beauties will already be familiar to the visitor, who has seen them also in other cities.3 But the special quality of this city for the man who arrives there on a September4 evening, when the days are growing shorter and the multicolored lamps are…

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