Getting Things Right

   I will continue to anlyze the metaliterature aspect of the book because in my opinion, it went better than expected in my previous blog. Even though I was not expecting any enjoyment out of focusing on this aspect, I did. It is very intresting to see how Calvino describes how you are, or should be acting through Kublai Khan's character.

   Kublai Khan (us), is proving less bothered and more curious. However he seems to be seeking aproval from Marco Polo (Calvino or the book itself). He presents a bold answer to explain and decipher Marco Polo's aim and model. Much like me and the rest in our blogs, we come up with this answers that are supposed to unravel Calvino's intentions and figure out every metaphor. We want to leave Calvino naked, stripped from all his complexity. However as much as we think our answer is smart and how simple Calvino's methods are, we are probably so caught up in our own little idea that we dont see all of the toying around Marco Polo (Calvino) is doing with us. As much as Kublai Khan is trying to deduce Marco Polo, Marco Polo is deucing the emperor even more. He doesnt do this with affirmations but rather questions and descriptions that leave Khan in the restless and as much as he tries to answer these questions he reveals a part of him and of his empire which he as so ignorant about. As I said in my previous blog, feelings are what model each city in the empire, this is vey much like hat Kublah is saying now in the sense that he is trying to create a pattern-based model for the cities. However as I am saying in this blog and how Marco Polo is saying in the book, this model we think we have is useless, it has so many exeptions to its rules that it would end up describing every city with a different rule. So what is the point to all this if we will never get the "answer" right, and why would we, its irrelevant. We learn more by making wrong answers, we learn why they are wrong and in an almost psycoanalytic way, he tells us why we though it was right!

   Ofcourse this is all in a "meta" aspect, Calvino is not going to right me an e-mail telling me how far fetched and over compensating my connection to the space time continuum was.