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“ ...........marco Polo builds a bridge, Stone by Stone,
But which is the stone that supports the bridge? asks Kublai Khan
The bridge is not supported by one stone or another rplies Marco Polo but by the line of the arch that they form.
Kublai Khan remains silent, reUlecting, then asks; why do you speak to me of stones when it is only the arch that matters to me?
Polo answers ; without stones there is no arch .” Italo Calvino Invisible Cities
Looking back oil on Russian linen 110 x 120cm 2009