tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post6999256805449036529..comments2023-04-07T03:46:10.167-04:00Comments on Every Page of Moby-Dick and more...: INVISIBLE CITIES: IsauraMatt Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00146374807705850842noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-79484202182668162832014-06-06T09:26:29.492-04:002014-06-06T09:26:29.492-04:00I would be interested in seeing your illustration ...I would be interested in seeing your illustration of Isaura.Matt Kishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17854685960260054407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-54134670325800520552014-06-05T23:31:45.527-04:002014-06-05T23:31:45.527-04:00entirely - my bad, but I'm typing on an ipad.....entirely - my bad, but I'm typing on an ipad...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-67406976390014475292014-06-05T23:30:14.384-04:002014-06-05T23:30:14.384-04:00This one is weak, Matt. If you're going to sym...This one is weak, Matt. If you're going to symbolize Isaura's aquifer in your illustration, seems to me that "the inhabitants dig long vertical holes in the ground" is an essential detail. The description cries out for a vertical format: "thelong vertical holes in the ground," the long cables used to lift and lower the water buckets (and the gods that live in them!), windmills above the wells, "reservoirs perched on stilts over the roofs" of the buildings, "the slender arches of the aquaducts," "the vertical pipes, the plungers, the drains, all the way up to the weathercocks that surmount the airy scaffoldings of Isaura, a city that moves entirele upward." Also, Calvino's city is supposed to be a green oasis (built over a deep BLACK underground lake), not a moon base.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com