Invisible CitiesOGR (Online Green light Review)

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AnastasiaAt the end of three days, moving southward, you come upon Anastasia, a city with concentric canals watering it and kites flying over it. I should now list the wares that can profitably be brought here: agate, onyx, chrysoprase, and other varieties of chalcedony; I should praise the flesh of the golden pheasant cooked here over fires of seasoned cherry wood and sprinkled with much sweet marjoram; and tell of the women I have seen bathing in the pool of a garden and who sometimes - it is said - invite the stranger to disrobe with them and chase them in the water. But with all this, I would not be telling you the city’s true essence; for while the description of Anastasia awakens desires one at a time only to force you to stifle them, when you are in the heart of Anastasia one morning, your desires waken all at once and surround you. The city appears to you as a whole where no desire is lost and of which you are a part, and since it enjoys everything you do not enjoy, you can do nothing but inhabit this desire and be content. Such is the power, sometimes called malignant, sometimes benign, that Anastasia, the treacherous city, possesses; if for eight hours a day you work as a cutter of agate, onyx, chrysoprase, your labor with gives form to desire takes fro desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave.

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I have chosen Anastasia for its hidden charms. The text has enough information to ‘awaken desire’ but not enough to describe it as a whole. This gives me some freedom into placing buildings into the walls beneath ‘concentric canals’ and map out the workshops and studios for its slaves.

The fire pit and the bathing pools are what first sparked my interest. Where are they within this network of the city? Is there a focal point within? Is the city like the Colosseum with its curvature or is only half of its city covered by its spokes?

I hope to make several versions of its architecture before refining it down to its bones and adding in its alluring women and the workers ever struggling to please the city.

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