The Past Describes
You can try to portray an object, a person or place using descriptions. Talking about its appearance, its color and even its infrastructure. However, the audience will not have a real connation to it. In order to describe anything in particular one must mention its past, because that is what makes an object unique and special. “.. written in the corners of the streets, the grating of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags…” (Pg.11). Italo Calvino the author of Invisible Cities, also believes that the best way to describes an object, in this case a city is by looking and illustrating details that tell a particular story about it. In the case of people one must look for burns, cuts, stitches, wrinkles, expression lines, sun burns and scratches . It is due to all these features that one is will be able to know the person before even talking with them
This blog entry does a very good job by connecting the descriptions made by Calvino in the book to the potential descriptions one can make of a person. Concise and direct, the entry goes right to point and states a clear point on the importance of small details to get a sense of the big picture. It is important to revise spelling, such as in "connotation" and try to introduce the quote into the text, by embedding it. This way it will enhance the textual reference and make it clearer to the reader. I agree with what Manuela said because the only way to profoundly understand a person is to focus on small details and try to imagine what the person is like.
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