the anti-heroine of an era of bathtub gin, organized crime, and jazz, clouded in the smoke of fired guns and cigarettes.
Remembering is like constructing and then traveling again through a space. We are already talking about architecture. Memories are built as a city is built.

— Umberto Eco, from “Architecture and Memory,” trans. William Weaver, VIA (vol. 8, 1986)


@темы: with serpents for arms the lovers are the hydra of the tale