Maybe Is The Best I Have

"It has neither name nor place...everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear." 

In addition to the text above, Kublai Khan's feelings of each city resembling one another.  Got me thinking that what if Polo is describing one city? A city where his dreams originate, a city which he has either the fear of losing from his memory or longs to explore. A third possibility that circulates might be the idea that the original city, is quite original. WHat i mean by this: maybe there are no blueprints for the original city: a city made by Marco's dreams. 

As Marco tells the emperor that the city has "neither name nor place", the reader right away asks: Then what is a city? If Marco's definition of city has neither time nor place, then how can it be an actual city? Staying away from the literal aspects of population and blatant infrastructure. Another question arises. 

Does this idea of nor time nor place, finally explain why Calvino writes in no particular age? Thus justifying the 20th century buildings with 15th century caravan routes or either camel or steamboat transportation. I get lost even writing about my ideas that surge from trying to tie all aspects of Calvino's text. The possibility that Polo's dream city divides into all the cities described to the Khan or that this idea of time nor place, does not expose Polo's blasphemy. In contrary, maybe Calvino ties the idea of eternal cities. Cities where time doesn't affect either the people or the place. Casting a blanket of infinite exploration, of mystery. A sense of invisibleness. Hence explaining why Calvino doesn't bother writing in a specific tie period. Including characteristics stretching from the fifteenth century to modern day. A hint of Paradox.