As porous as this stone is the architecture. Building and action interpenetrate in the courtyards, arcades, and stairways. In everything they preserve the scope to become a theatre of new, unforseen constellations. The stamp of the definitive is avoided. No situation appears intended forever, no figure asserts its "thus and not otherwise".
Walter Benjamin, 'Naples' in One-Way Street and Other Writings (NLB, 1979) p. 169
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