Cicerone's Journeys: Four

Cicerone is a collector, hunting and gathering fleeting impressions that are the folklore of a dissipating culture. He stakes his pitch from here to here, from now to now, a barker harking back to vanished public fora where storytellers and soothsayers built architectures of narrative upon which cultural heritage would rest. There's a thin red line running through his cabinet of curiosities, a thin red line like the laser sight of a guided missile, a semantic bomb that is smart enough to explode on impact with meaning. After the explosion the dust settles and Cicerone sifts through the debris looking for clues, making links, hoping to reconstruct a chain of events. Once he finds out the circumstances, then he can go out and build another reality, draw another map, tell another story, translate another text, illuminate another manuscript.