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    1. valentinethedj 27 Jan 2016
      Memory is re-dundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin toexist.

      The analogies in this excerpt we're a little far fetched for me in that I can in no way relate to them, but this sentence stuck out to me. In the context of media, advertising uses "redundant" themes, slogans, or schemes to market a product or service. So much so that I will forever know that I "now have a friend in the diamond business. Shane Co. on Scottsdale Rd. and Acoma one mile South of Bell Rd. Open Weekdays till 8, Saturday and Sunday till 5. Online at shaneco.com.

    2. valentinethedj 27 Jan 2016
      for while the description of Anas-tasia awakens desires one at a time only to force youto stifle them, when you are in the heart of Anastasiaone morning your desires waken all at once and sur-srnce1tyounot encaribut inhabit this desire and be contentSuch is the power,sometimes benign, that Anastasia, the treacherouscity, possesses; if for eight hours aday.I".9-f -wort *t"cutter of agate, onyx, chrysopt^.,''io";"fibdi-i;'fr1;hyou believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly whenyou are only its slave.

      "The city appears to you as a whole where no desire is lost... but inhabit this desire and be content." is a confusing excerpt to me. I'm not sure what Kublai is trying to say here, but in the context of the rest of the paragraph I can relate the theme to the condition of consumerism we have here in the U.S. The lower and middle class work tirelessly to live the a desierable lifestyle but at the cost of the work we put in and working just to conform to the materialistic mindset that is present in much of society. "We believe we are enjoying this life wholly when in reality we are only slaves."

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAg3uMlNyHA

    3. valentinethedj 27 Jan 2016
      As this wave from memories flows in, the citysoaks it up like a sponge and expands' A descriptionThe city, however, does not tell its pasr, but con-tains it like the lines of a hand, written in thecorners of the streets, the gratings of the windows,the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the light-ning rods, the poles of the flags, every segmentmarked in turn with scratches, indentarions, scrolls

      Reading about the city of Zaira and it's history quite literally living in the blemishes of the physical city but the author still glorifying it reminded me of this video of a modern explorere being intrigued by the ruins of Chernobyl for its historical qualities.

      https://www.facebook.com/testtubevideo/videos/1530962657196503/

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