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Plate II · iv · d · The City

Urbino

A palace on a hill, one painting I have wanted to stand in front of for years, and no stamp in the book yet.

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The hill town of Urbino at dusk seen from below, palace towers and brick roofs against a cold sky
Plate II · iv · d · The hill, at dusk

It is four hours from anywhere and that, I suspect, is exactly why the room is still quiet.

A day, properly arranged
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Written as a plan, not a memory. I have not been.

The entries

One entry, on the list, and honestly so.
Still on the list in Urbino
Not yet stood in. Kept here so I cannot quietly forget it.
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Notes for Urbino

I have not been to Urbino. Every note on this page is a plan, and the entry stays hollow-marked in the directory until I have stood in the room and can write something worth reading.

The obstacle has always been the same one: it is a hill town reached by bus from a valley, four hours from the cities either side of it, and it refuses to be a morning. Spring, and a night in the town — that is the shape of it.

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