Memory And Zora.

"Invisible cities" by Calvino is organized so that the reader decides his own way of reading through the book. I decided to read all the chapters named Cities and Memory first. Memory is one of the things in the world that has been explored with persistence, yet it remains very unknown. Some researchers say the best kept memories are those that you don't remember. They came up with this theory when they discovered that every time you look for something specific in your mind you change it. Make it more appealing or more dramatic for your own benefit. You add details that were not there originally and so on. Memory is inaccurate.
Calvino exposes one situation in which an old man dreams about a city. In his dream he reached the city while still young. In reality he reaches it in the middle of his elderly life. He has the memory of his dream to entertain himself when bored. But following the theory of memory he is making his dream change every time he goes back to it.
Calvino emphasizes on the visual descriptions of the cities. Although short they incite the reader to do a complex mental image of them.

I remember ( which means I distort a bit the real memory) that one city named Zora had been forgotten, but it was unforgettable. It had been forgotten because strange new gods had replaced the old ones. This unfortunate phenomena is relevant to daily life, we can see and be part of a more light headed generation that changed and forgot the past one when it brought strange morals to society instead of cultivating the old ones.