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Q10: Walking on Water

When roads change into waterways, they’ll flood you if you sit.

In this land there are boats instead of cars and all curves instead of straight lines. The stones bubble and flood over with water while people squish onto runways to walk around the city. I used to follow roads when I got lost, but, here, roads for vehicles and roads for people cross and veer off in different directions. I try to read signs but they point me in two directions. The houses have two front entrances and no back door. The city can’t grow so instead it wiggles slowly back into the lagoon it emerged from.

Experiencing Venice requires you to throw away your routines and adapt a completely new set of rules and logic. No other city has asked this much of me. When roads have turned to waterways, everything in life changes. How one moves about the city is completely different in Venice than anywhere else in the world.


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