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panem et circens1s
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panem et circensis
In Diamante travelers are shown two palaces,
crumbling to ruins without ever having been
completed. They have immense window embrasures
without frames, high walls without roof and great
portals closed up by boards and straw. The two
palaces lie opposite each other on both sides of the
streets, both equally incomplete and equally
ruinous. There is no scaffolding around them, and no
one can get inside them. They seem to be built
only for the doves.
And this is what is told of them.
" What is a woman, O signore ? Her foot is so
small, that she passes through the world and leaves
no trace behind her. To the man she is as his
shadow. She has followed him through his whole
life without his noticing her.
" One cannot expect much of a woman. Is she
not shut up all day in the house like a prisoner?
She cannot even learn to spell a love-letter correctly.
She can do nothing that has consistency. When
she is dead, there is nothing to write on her
gravestone. All women are of about the same height.
" But one time there came to Diamante a woman
who was so much above all others as the
century-old palm is above the grass. She had lires
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