I really don't have a lot to say about this one. I could probably dig into it and find something more than what I've got, but I'm not going to do it this time. It's not that it's too pretty (it's not, really), or that there's too much there to get into (maybe there is, but I don't think so). I don't know. Maybe I'm just lazy. I'll limit it, instead, to just a simple application fitting it--squeezing it, it seems--into the spider theme we've had going this chapter:
If Melania might fit into the spider theme, it can only be that all these citizens who die and are replaced or renewed or replayed are the spiders. While I'm not convinced this is what Calvino had in mind at all, it makes for an interesting shift from beginning of the chapter to end: that we started with the spider as the God--the emperor--and now end with the spiders as the citizens. Thoughts?
The name, Melania, by the way, is Greek for black or dark. Go figure.
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