Carats in a Diamond

 When we exercised our understanding on metaliterature in class I got nervous, seeing that I did not grasp the idea as much as I thought I did. I read the next pages and really focused in analysing the book's metaliterature and move away from my ramblings that simultaniously moved away from the book itself.

   Kublai Khan seems more restless as the book continious and, as well as me since the metaliterature indicates that he is the "audience", also however because just like the great Khan, I dont really get the book. This is no entirely true, I dont think there is acctually a way to "get" the book, as long as you can analyze and deduce something "meta", or get some meaning out of it I think that is valid. However that is not going to get me a four on my final. This should not come off as something Im doing for a grade but rather an effort to further expand my analytic skills and take the step beyond figurative and enter the spider web of metaliterature.

   Kublai, in the mist of an argument, tells Polo about how his great empire is actually formed by hard work and grandure. Always assuming Kublai is us, then that would mean that our empire is our lives. Marco Polo describes the empire in terms of feelings, he does describes son physical wanders but all serving a purpose, to transmit a feeling (nostalgia, freedom, paranoia, etc). Kublai on the other hand just sees the diamond, and the crystals and how its all perfect and grand. This is not Marco Polo's objective. To answer the emperors dilema Marco describe how a city of his will rise over the others cities ashes, but most importantly of all he values this diamond of his based on unhappiness.

   The diamond is the final outcome of his empire, making it the final utcome of our lives. How can you measure the carats on thi diamond, how can we measure our lives worth? To answer this we need to know in what does Marco believe our live is made up, and since the empire is our lives and the empire is made of cities then cities must be the measuring scale. Not amount of cities but what they contain, I said cities in the work described feelings but feelings come from experiences. Do we measure our lives by experiences? On how much and how strong feelings are felt, not on what we get materially or socially but actually internally? Do we measure our live's value based on how we feel about ourselves or how other people feel about us? Naive of me to think my existencial unrest was going to simmer down after Selfish Gene.