(I know it's self-indulgence, but I can't help but think of T.E. Hulme's "
Above the Dock," reading the Khan's description of the moon's progression in his dream.)
- If a person is, or may be[come], master of his/her domain, and if Kublai Khan's entire empire exists merely--or maybe just possibly--as words and dreams, mightn't any person gain leadership of grand empire?
- What of the notion that the Khan's empire is so huge and that it's impossible for him to ever visit all the cities? Is this and Polo's descriptions anything like the famed tree that falls in a forest with no one to hear?
- Regarding the structure of the book, do the opening expositions to each chapter--the situation the Khan finds himself in--dictate the meme of Polo's coming descriptions? (And any thoughts at all on how much time passes during or between each chapter?)
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