
Città di carta, cioè città create solo sulle mappe, inesistenti se non nella fantasia di chi le ha create. Margot vive a Orlando, città di carta nella sua mente, con gente di carta, che vive giorni di carta, vive di gioie di carta. Non sa accontentarsi, e decide di partire, oramai maggiorenne, dopo una nottata folle di rivincite con...tro chi l'ha ingannata e tradita in qualche modo. Quentin l'accompagna nell'ultima notte a Orlando, il bravo Quentin che lei conosce da quando erano piccoli, a lui legata da un anomalo evento della loro infanzia: il ritrovamento di un cadavere, ai margini di Jefferson Park. Quentin non si rassegna ad averla persa, e così la cerca con l'ausilio di tracce che Margot non ha mai lasciato, nella convinzione che sia lei a volersi fare trovare, per tornare indietro. Ma l'epilogo è ben diverso da ciò che Quentin pensa, Margot è diversa da come l'ha sempre immaginata e alla fine deve fare la sua scelta, tra restare con la donna che ama, oppure tornare alla "sua" città di carta, sapendo che un giorno, forse, la rivedrà
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She gets
up and searches her backpack for a moment, and then she reaches over and grabs
'the bell jar' and reads to me. "but when it came down right to it, the
skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I could not do it. It was
as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that
jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a lot
harder to get at".
(1) The bell jar, by S.Plath
I imagine it's hard to go back once you've felt the continents in your palm.
Like, each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen-these people leave us, or don't love us, or don't get us, or we don't get them, and we loose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack open I places. And I mean, yeah, once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. Once it starts to rain inside the Osprey, it will never be remodeled. But there is all this time between the cracks starts to open up and when we fall apart. And it's only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. Before that we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
(1) The bell jar, by S.Plath
I imagine it's hard to go back once you've felt the continents in your palm.
Like, each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen-these people leave us, or don't love us, or don't get us, or we don't get them, and we loose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack open I places. And I mean, yeah, once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. Once it starts to rain inside the Osprey, it will never be remodeled. But there is all this time between the cracks starts to open up and when we fall apart. And it's only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. Before that we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
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