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| Soho, London, March 2017 |
"Kublai: 'Perhaps this dialogue of ours is taking place between two beggars nicknamed Kublai Khan and Marco Polo; as they sift through rubbish heap, piling up rusted flotsam, snaps of cloth, wastepaper, while drunk on the few sips of bad wine, they see all the treasure of the East shine around them'.
"Polo: 'Perhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland covered with rubbish heaps, and the hanging garden of the Great Khan's palace. It is our eyelids that separate them, but we cannot know which is inside and which outside.'" [1.]
[1.]: Italo Calvino, 'Invisible Cities', London, Secker & Warburg, 1974
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