Dust Lines
Marco Polo said: ´The more he was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more he understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive at.´ At this point Kublai Khan interrupted him to ask him back: ´You advance always with your head turned back? Is what you see always behind you? Does your journey take place only in the past?´ And Marco Polo explained that what he sought was always something lying ahead, even if it was a matter of the past. Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his he did not know he had. The foreignness of what you no longer are, or no longer possess, lies in wait for you in foreign unpossessed places."
-Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
