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Marco polo invisible cities5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() “I shall tell you what I dreamed last night,’ he says to Marco. Here’s a tantalizing sample of an exchange between Polo and Khan: The story is woven with memory, desire, dreams, longing, and the constancy of change in trying to capture what is closest to our hearts. For each city is wondrous and impossible, yet Marco Polo is only ever describing one: the city of his birth, Venice, Italy. And so it goes, the explorer gives the conqueror a vision of a world he has not seen, and most likely, never will. ![]() After each journey, Kublai Khan asks Marco Polo to describe the cities he has been to. It’s a story of Marco Polo recounting his many and varied travels to Kublai Khan. Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities is such a book. ![]() There are books so fantastical you just want them to be real. ![]()
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