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So, I'm going to read--

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Lisa told you a little
bit about my title.

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So, yes, it comes from this
original English translation

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of Marco Polo's travels, The
Description of the World,

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and this is the title poem.

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"Like language,
love is the desire

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not to be a simple
illustration, but to be instead,

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and continuously, a starting
out across distances

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that have not yet been and
perhaps may never be drawn.

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It is the hope that you,
toward whom I intend to travel,

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will recognize in what is, in
truth, just a smudge or a tear

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on a mostly empty page, the
form of a bridge or a boat.

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and within or upon that
form, the form of a woman.

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and within or upon
that form, me.

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When there is no reason for you
to do so, when it could equally

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be a simple mistake made by the
artist by chance or by time.

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but it could still
be so many things.

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A wave, for example.

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A bird, a whale.

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No, it does not have
to be me out there,

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drifting across uncharted
waters on an unseen breeze."

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So, that's my "Description
of the World."