The note is mainly based on the structural bonds that connect the landscape-cultural mosaic. Sometimes there are clear and well-coordinated links, sometimes they are instead fragments of the past or vague intuitions for the future that must be replaced in a coherent framework. By transferring what was affirmed by De Mauro (1990) we can imagine a vague and imprecise conceptual framework where "we speak ill and we understand each other badly", but where interaction and negotiation allow us to refine a possible understanding. The palimpsest is one of the tools that allow time travel, while protocols are those that reduce the likelihood of false interpretations, even if they limit the fantasy of artistic perception. The conclusion recalls the splendid synthesis of the changing fate of the fragments of spiritual and material life that was given by Calvino in one of his invisible cities. Clarice, a city that alternates splendor and misery, succeeds in regenerating and reusing all the material signs of its past, in improper and paradoxical ways, because in the end the order of succession of the eras has been forgotten.
