I have never read Invisible Cities, but this chain has made me run out to buy the book. Thanks!

The Traveler must be related to Don Juan or Captain Kirk, with all his various bedroom conquests. It’s sad that his latest one is less than satisfactory.

I’ll have to look up Invisible Cities. Sounds interesting.

To be honest, this one took me a couple of reads before it really clicked. For some reason, I didn’t catch the pattern at first—but that’s a fault of this reader’s, not the story’s, I believe.

I really like the idea of a city that embraces the limitless bounty of literature to the detriment of reality.

I also really like yurts.

Everyone likes yurts. It’s a fun word to say.

Yurt, yurt, yurt, yurt.

This is great. I know the desire to just escape the ordinary in a good book, seeing it taken to the extreme is so interesting and troubling too.

You haven’t lived until you’ve had yak yogurt in a yurt, let me tell you.

Silliness aside, I liked how this one presented the situation without overt judgment. The way I read it, you’ve left it open enough to interpretation for the reader to wonder who’s really missing out, the traveler who still focused on the physicalities or the denizens lost in their books.

Scary, scary thought for me. Sadly, I’ve found myself so wrapped in literature sometimes that my social life began to dwindle… This was very well written, and the patterned writing worked with it.

This could be seen as a metaphor for us now. We’re so wrapped up in literature, movies, facebook and tv that we don’t actually go out and face-to-face with friends and form lasting relationships.
An interesting concept, particulary when juxtapositioned with the previous city concept.