As a personal experience I can say that I learned to love the concept of
city mostly through literature. I felt so good when reading the subject
of this e-mail to continue the conversation that we started the past week
—which I'm very thankful to all of you who has shared ideas, experience and
This week I feel the discussion is changing tone and adding new voices new
registers new shades of knowledge and feelings. We are having emotions
here, too seldom discussed on electronic exchanges or in cyberculture. I am
one of the few of my generation familiar with videogames, as a woman and as
I would make a distinction between loneliness and anonymity. I find
anonymity one of the most powerful creative resources. About loneliness, I
wonder if the city is thus reproducing its own condition or myths in its
writers in the sense that I feel that Montevideo is a lonely city with
almost no
