Status Updates From Les ciutats invisibles

Another one like sidartba about great ebb and flow on the biggest most human scale but also feels deeply intimate and personal each repitition

“ your cities do not exist. Perhaps they’ve never existed and assure they will never exist again. Why do you amuse yourself with consolatory fables? I know well that my empire is rotting like a corpse in a swamp who’s contagion infects the crows that peck it as well as the bamboo that grows fertilized by its humors. Why do you not speak to me of this?”

"O viajante reconhece o pouco que é seu descobrindo o muito que não teve e o que não terá."