few clouds glide past; farther down you can glimpse the chasm's bed. this is the foundation of the city: a net which serves as passage and as support. all the rest, instead of rising up, is hung below: rope ladders, hammocks, houses made like sacks, clothes hangers, terraces like gondolas, skins of water, gas jets, spits, baskets on strings, dumb-waiters, showers, trapezes and rings for children's games, cable cars, chandeliers, pots with trailing plants