Invisible Cities
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Marco Polo, Kublai Khan
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Leaving there and proceeding for three days toward the east, you reach Diomira, a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods, streets paved with lead, a crystal theatre, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower.
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"The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek to learn and recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."
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