some possible relationship between two cities from “ invisible cities”

When people come to a new city, what they see and what they remember are familiar things in their memory. For example, the goblet means bars, the curtain and plotted plant means home, the show window means shops. So their memory could be changed by the new things come to their minds. The feeling about the home and familiar space.

When people forget their memory more and get lost in the new place, they could more easily get familiar with the new one.

In this book, there are many stories about invisible cities, and several the ways of imagination are helpful for my forbidden soho. 

From the book, I found the following impossible relationship between soho and Forbidden City:

l  Under the Forbidden City, there is underground space built for some special functions, such as hiding treasures or secrets. The shape of this space is decided by the overground palaces, just like a reflection of them. The same as my forbidden soho, one could be another’s reflection.

l  When a city is destroyed and the walls are removed, if they are replaced by other kind of bricks, or make the walls in another order, it will be another city. the Forbidden Soho could be a puzzle game, the bricks from Forbidden City and soho could be moved and reset.

l  The forbidden soho is half Forbidden, half soho. The soho part is permanent and the other half is meet different people’s desires. In other words, it is people’s memory from another city. In my eyes, it is Forbidden City with Chinese style buildings, but in other’s eyes, it could be a totally different other mixture.

l  The feeling and the physical city exist in two space, the border is people’s eyes. These two spaces, sometimes, you can’t tell which is outside and which is inside. So I think if the forbidden soho could be just like this. Standing outside of the certain border and look inside, it is a real soho. But when go in the border, and look outside, it is the Forbidden City. This is just like two spaces sticking together. In one space, people could see the other one but could never get there.