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A few of my favourite things…

Date: August 21 2005
Location: Salzburg, Austria
Fieldnote: Fräuline Maria’s cycling tour group, mainly American, perform hesitant re-enactment of Do-Re-Mi song and dance routine at Schloss Mirabell. Outside the palace gates, a young Czech male in 18th century garb promotes the ‘Best of Mozart’ concert ‘to be performed by musicians in wigs.’

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Analogous cities

“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities 1972)

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