What Specific Contribution

Cities and the dead

Cesidio

Cesidio What makes different from other cities are building facades. They have no windows or gables of stone or carved wood frames. The walls have never been covered by a thin plaster, or have never known the warmth of the rays of the setting sun. Ubique resistant structures of bamboo planted their claws on the buildings, and have gone with insistence to the most remote depths of the city. It is said that these structures serve as a bridge between the world of the living and the dead, who, having plenty of free time and bored in the dark underground engage in those activities are preferred by the inhabitants of Cesidio in life, or spy, listen and speak ill of others. The cavities of the tubes are used now as the intricate periscopes, now as amplifiers of chatter and whispers, sometimes as channels of the pneumatic post, in which compact balls of assumptions, speculations and intrigues revealed chase each other madly. Every time one of these balls, pushed by the pressure of words and sounds, pops out from the ends of the structures, injuring the unwary passers-by walking nearby, or exploding into thin strips of colored paper, which, once deposited randomly on the structure, form the ' only decoration of the buildings that the inhabitants of Cesidio like.


Thin cities

Leodora

If I had not glimpsed the letters engraved on the gleaming pendant, I would not have realized that I came across Leodora, a city that can not be visited, which may not be covered, but can only be met and admired, before the young girl who wears it disappears carry away. The city is slippery, multifaceted, chameleon, assumes with sudden mood swings seemingly random appearance of jewelry and women's clothing. Soft, impalpable, like a warm shawl fine, suddenly shrinks, it boils down to a hard stone, cold and multifaceted. Moments and the girl wearing a simple tunic, simple and austere, that during the day become a full skirt and saucy, in whose folds lie the secret formulas that the protracted spell. This makes the city go along with the climate and the environment in which it is brought, that go along with elegance and enhances the features. Leodora has no inhabitants, but she herself lives in the imagination of those who want to meet her and in memory of those who can not forget.