The Body of a Woman Part 2

"Kublai Khan had noticed that Marco Polo´s cities resembled one another, as if the passage from one to another involved not a journey but a change of elements. Now, from each city Marco described to him, the Great Khan´s mind set out on its own, and after dismantling the city piece by piece, he reconstructed it in other ways, substituting components, shifting them, inverting them." (pg. 43)

Women are all, in essence, the same, but elements like personality, skin tone, hair color, or size mark a notable difference. Most of the cities portrayed are like that, and I noticed many that were close to congurent.

Eusapia, on page 109, is a beautiful city built above an identical one. One lies undergound, a hidden place where the dead live. These are almost the same city, and where the dead and alive try to become one another´s refelction. Reminds me of page 111, with the city of Beersheba. There is a tangible city, but there is also one in the heavens and one underneath. If the citizens of Beersheba are honorable, they will become one with the city in the heavens, but if they act otherwise, this will happen with the city underneath. Why so many copies of the same city? Two-faced women?

 All my thoughts about women were interrupted when the next day, we used close reading to understand the first pages of the book. This would change how I viewed the whole text then. The book was an allegory, just like Inferno!

Its Indirect Metaliterature!