"But if you pause and examine it carefully, you become convinced that each place in the carpet corresponds to a place in the city and all the things contained in the city are contained in the design, arranged according to their true relationship, which escapes your eye distracted by the bustle, the throngs the shoving. All of Eudoxia's confusion, the mules' braying, the lampblack stains, the fish smell is what is evident in the incomplete perspective you grasp; but the carpet proves that there is a point form which the city shows its true proportions, the geometrical scheme implicit in its every, tiniest detail."
-Italo Calvino
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