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Despina

Despina Cities & Desire III Be the first to find it

“Despina can be reached in two ways: by ship or by camel. The city displays one face to the traveler arriving overland and a different one to him who arrives by sea. When the camel driver sees, at the horizon of the tableland…”

— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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