tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395948500312534280.post5785620967825593104..comments2024-02-25T01:48:45.848-07:00Comments on Mr. Center's Wall: INVISIBLE CITIES III -- Cities of Memory: ISIDORAJoseph Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00090686611405364311noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395948500312534280.post-84155386883316902112011-05-31T12:09:24.960-06:002011-05-31T12:09:24.960-06:003. This is one of the primary reasons I love this...3. This is one of the primary reasons I love this.Joseph Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00090686611405364311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395948500312534280.post-49218127252009764372011-05-31T11:31:39.578-06:002011-05-31T11:31:39.578-06:003. Yes, exactly. I find myself rereading each of ...3. Yes, exactly. I find myself rereading each of these a couple of times to get the point, and THEN I realize that it's sad. It takes poetry-style carefulness to read these.<br />4. Haha, I think that I spent too much time hanging around the political theory department.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708022607046379611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395948500312534280.post-90954207578865881692011-05-31T11:24:53.253-06:002011-05-31T11:24:53.253-06:003. No. How often do we think we want something u...3. No. How often do we think we want something until we get it and then realize we shouldn't have ever pursued it. Similarly, how often do we long for the past because what we've got right now doesn't satisfy? Interesting how these first two cities, while ostensibly lovely, are actually truly sad places.<br />4. Nice word there! And I like the interpretation. It works.<br />5. I agree. Very succinct.Joseph Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00090686611405364311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395948500312534280.post-8325602042415309002011-05-31T10:58:59.126-06:002011-05-31T10:58:59.126-06:001. It seems to be a city in which people can look ...1. It seems to be a city in which people can look at things that they used to desire but are now too old to enjoy. Maybe you have nostalgia for those days, but perhaps you also see the pointlessness of it all.<br />2. I think that it's almost a similarity. Both are things that one may have desired before wisdom kind of ruined it for them, such as the line about "envy" in the first city.<br />3. Yes, we do. Do you think that the traveler is really contented here, though?<br />4. As you go up the spiral, you're always following some desire. Then perhaps memory is the trip back down. So maybe it's memory at the bottom, life on the staircase, at the top as sort of the telos. <br />5. I think that this fits in with the idea that you've wanted this city your entire life, but when you finally get there, you no longer have any desire for it. You're almost burned out.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708022607046379611noreply@blogger.com