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over there it was just a huge sea of dust / the first decades were spent in silent bitterness and exhaustion / under dust and heat the land was desert / the climate is now warmer and drier. thousands of years of drought killed the trees and dried the soil until it became such a thin dust which was carried by the weakest wind, building up hills with lines as pure and sterile as any sand dune / at night, everybody coughed. during the day, they coughed less; they were too busy to cough. The dust was their enemy, so thin and dry that obstructed throats and lungs; it was their enemy and their labor, their hope it was a barren world. barren, pale, hostile barren, cold and windy, and the rest of the planet was worse / the air was rarefied / sun burns, wind freezes, dust chokes / why leave to a howling desert?



SCI-FI-DEL- REY —  ESSA CIDADE NÃO ERA UMA UTOPIA ECOSSOCIALISTA IMAGINADA POR URSULA LE GUIN

Fotografias anônimas da construção da cidade de Belo Horizonte, projetada para ser a capital do estado de Minas Gerais, final do século XIX.
Páginas do livro ‘Os Despossuídos’, de Ursula K Le Guin.

Anonimous photographs of the construction of Belo Horizonte, a planned city to be the state capital of Minas Gerais (Brazil), late XIX century.
Pages from 'The Dispossessed', by Ursula K Le Guin.
Belo Horizonte, 2019–2021