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Cobbles are stones used to build the streets. The 'chalk on the wall' imagery suggests grafitti to me. Pretty obvious. He uses the grafitti idea to speak to the illegal nature of the changes. The inability for the authorities to enforce even simple boundary lines like streets.<div><br></div><div>Steve<br><div><div>On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Ryan Dunn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Georgia">I think I understand the second part. I'm not sure what taking up the cobbles in the dark means exactly, but this has something to do with clever people claiming land as their own by stealing it in the dark? Anyhow...</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia; min-height: 19.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Georgia">More importantly, what does he mean by the city changing every night? And how is writing chalked on a wall the right metaphor here. Is he saying there are so many people, that every day a line of buildings might appear, while another might crumble?</font></p> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>