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. . . they pushed on, raised the flag of the Word Upon lawless spots denied or forgotten By the fear or the pride of the Glittering City . . .

—W. H. AUDEN

the city that wakes every hundred years and looks at itself in the mirror of a word and doesn’t recognize itself and goes back to sleep . . .

—OCTAVIO PAZ

Thus the city repeats its life, identical, shifting up and down on its empty chessboard.

—ITALO CALVINO