I n the novel Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Marco Polo, returning from his travels, encounters Kublai Khan. It's the end of the day, near the end of the great Khan's life, and perhaps at the end of his empire. Marco Polo tells of the cities he visited while traveling the farflung empire. Each one is fantastic and is described in
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