Kublai Khan's Dream - Lalage

by Paul HAIGH

Title

Kublai Khan's Dream - Lalage

Artist

Paul HAIGH

Medium

Drawing - Pen, Ink, Watercolor On Fabriano Paper

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Kublai Khan's Dream - Lalage

Date : 1995
Materials : Pen, Ink, Watercolor on Fabriano Paper
Dimensions : 9.625" in. x 13.00" in (244m x 330mm)

Kublai Khan's Dream - Lalage

…" I shall tell you what I dreamed Iast night," he says to Marco. "In the midst of a…land, dotted with meteorites and erratic boulders, I saw from a distance the spires of a city rise, slender pinnacles, made in such a way that the moon in her journey can rest now on one, now on another, or sway from the cables of the cranes."

And Polo says: The city of your dream is Lalage.

Its inhabitants arranged these invitations to rest in the night sky so that the moon would grant everything in the city the power to grow and grow endlessly. "

"There is something you do not know," the Khan adds. "The grateful moon has granted the city of Lalage a rarer privilege: to grow in lightness."


'Le citta invisibili' Invisible Cities quoted text is translated from the Italian, by William Weaver, in the English translation copyright © 1974 by Harcourt Brace & Company.

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