“Nothing exists or happens in the one Valdrada that the other Valdrada does not repeat, because the city was so constructed that its every point would be reflected in its mirror, and the Valdrada down in the water contains not only all the flutings and jutings of the facades that rise above the lake but also the room’s interiors... At times the mirror increases a things value, at times it denies it. Not everything that seems valuable above the mirror maintains its force when mirrored.” 

 

_Cities and Eyes, INVISIBLE CITIES, Italo Calvino