INVISIBLE CITIES XXIV -- Trading Cities: CHLOE

1. There's a language issue present in Chloe, very similar to that of Hypatia, inasmuch as words and expectations have practically nothing to do with signs or the reality containing them.  Thoughts?
2. Is Chloe a virtual world?  Where does Chloe exist, especially concerning the all-cities-are-one?  Heck, even this: is Chloe science fiction?
3. If this is a city of commerce, a "trading city," what is the merchandise?  Where is everybody going when they pass each other on the street and "all combinations are used up" in their minds?
4. Regardless of the lack of physical contact, is this indeed a chaste city, let alone "the most chaste of cities"?

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INVISIBLE CITIES XXIII -- Thin Cities: ARMILLA

1. There is a semi-recurring theme of water, fountains, pipes, wells and windlasses, and the like.  Thoughts?
2. "Lavabo" is a great word, isn't it?
3. If all the cities are just a million impressions or vantages of the same city, what is the point from which Armilla is being viewed?
4. Contrast Armilla to Hypatia regarding Polo's proximity to them.  For example, Armilla: "In the morning you hear them singing" connotes, to me anyway, distance, as opposed to Polo's extended residency in Hypatia.
5. Is there a difference, fundamentally (and perhaps perspective is a required component to this answer), between a city destroyed and a city unfinished?

INVISIBLE CITIES XXII -- Cities and Signs: HYPATIA

"I realized I had to free myself from the images which in the past had announced to me the things I sought: only then would I succeed in understanding the language of Hypatia."  So what, then, is the language of Hypatia--or better, how is it nothing like our language in its regard to signs (signs being the referents of our words) --or best, what is the relationship between signs and the mind's expectations?  So then, if "there is no language without deceit," how does one communicate, and is the language of Hypatia actually any different from our languages anyway?

The real question here (because the first is just another of the countless un-answerables really) is what makes this place so attractive or comfortable that Polo apparently doesn't want to leave--at least not any time soon?