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After this they were dispersed abroad, on account of their languages, and went out by colonies everywhere; and each colony took possession of that land which they lighted upon, and unto which God led them; so that the whole continent was filled with them, both the inland and maritime countries. There were some also who passed over the sea in ships, and inhabited the islands; and some of these nations do still retain the names which were given to them by their first founders; but some also have lost them The Sybil Josephus.

The book is an inventory of damages from the hurricane and subsequent flooding. It alternates double spread pictures of streets and houses facades with houses interiors and details. It is here, in this rooms, that the absence of people becomes more eloquent than any human portrait can ever be. Polidori had already showed in his previous works, like Havana Fig. When asked to explain this particular interest in rooms, Polidori shows an elaborate thought, resulting from Classic philosophy: Say, for example, in the Pythagorean School—Pythagoras was into math and spirituality.

He used to teach math by sounds—by fractioning lengths of strings or ropes. The students there were not allowed to speak for two or three years.

They were taught to memorise empty rooms. A room was a locus for memory. They would memorise the colour, doorways, windows, and halls. I think of each one of those interior photos as a funerary image. When he photographed Chernobyl Fig. Imagine this man placing his tripod, carefully framing the picture under the black hood, and repeating this process almost mechanically for hundreds and hundreds of times, even in front of the only human presence we can find in the entire book: the corpse of a man that died in his bed.

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