![]() ![]() It’s possible to describe Dorothea by listing its exports, but it’s also possible to say, as a camel driver once told Marco, that Dorothea opens up horizons. In Isidora, a person can find every delight-but men who arrive there arrive in old age, not in their youth. It makes people feel envious of others who believe they’ve experienced similar evenings and think that they were happy. Marco describes Diomira, a city with towers. Through Marco’s stories, Kublai begins to see that there’s a pattern to his empire. Kublai’s empire is huge and he knows that he’ll never be able to truly understand his conquered territories, which makes him feel melancholy and as though his empire is an unfixable, corrupt ruin. ![]() Kublai Khan listens attentively as Marco Polo tells him about fantastical cities, even though he doesn’t entirely believe everything Marco says. ![]()
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