Denizens pack Invisibility. The city teems with life: the Invisible go to work and parties, loiter on the streets, walk up stairs, play in fountains, make art, and eat apples off of the fruit trees. Yet, unseen, they move through Invisibility as if alone. The architecture hides. They move silently around each other and objects — a graceful skill of maneuvering which all the Invisible possess.
Visitors quickly tire of the Unseen city.
“It would be nice to wake up one day and see the others,” Miss Doe Friend thinks on day three of their visit.
“If you fall in love, the other one becomes visible only to you,” says the Guide. "Visitors ask, 'How can you fall in love with someone you’ve never seen?' and we tell them, 'You walk the same paths each day until they appear.'"
The intricately sculpted gold clocktower Preoccupation sits ornately in the center of Invisibility. It is decorated with filigree, carved animal shapes and stars, and cutouts of triangles, circles, and rhomboids.
At each hour before the clock strikes little doors open up in its sides. A bear walks out on two legs, a magician doffs his top hat, a ballerina twirls, and an orchestra conductor waves her baton.
The figurines spin round. The clock chimes. A ditty plays and then a chime resounds for each hours that's passed. All the Invisible stop and gather round.
"I thought they would appear at this point when the square was so full of feeling and presence, but they remained unseen," said Miss Doe Friend.
“So crowded," barks Amma-Pom. “Let’s not come here again."
"Yes, why visit Invisibility?" asks Miss Doe Friend. "I feel I am already there."
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