Recapping Chapter One

“The tower was an opera glass: there were gilt wall
hangings with black cows; and the little princess in a black dress,
you couldn’t tell whether her dress had green suns on it or if you
were seeing her flesh through the holes in her rags.”

Max Jacob

Writers: Jim Dewitt, Alison Daniel, C.A. Conrad, Stephen D. Rogers,
G.O. Clark, Andrew Topel

“And Kublai said: ‘It is all useless, if the last
landing place can only be the infernal city, and it is there that,
in ever-narrowing circles, the current is drawing us.’

“And Polo said: ‘The inferno of the living is not something that
will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno
where we live every day, that we form by being together. There
are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many:
accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no
longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance
and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in
the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure,
give them space.’”

Italo Calvino

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