City of Desire

I have always loved the writing of Italo Calvino.... especially the story about Zobeide, a City of Desire, in the book "Invisible Cities"....

To cut the story short.... following is the retell of the story based on what I remembered...

A bunch of men dreamt of a woman running naked through a town. All of them started a journey looking for that city to no avail...

Some of them met with each other and decided to build the city up themselves based on what they remember.... and also included mechanisms to trap that naked woman....

Other men with the same pursuit came and recognizes how some part of the city resembles what they saw in the dream... So.... they stayed and joined in to build and modified the city of dream...

So the city underwent a constant (re)building process based on the piece meals of recalls--- without a blueprint...

At some point, some people with no idea about that naked woman wondered in to the city.... and they went....

"Jesus Christ.... what a ugly city...." 8-O lol

Then I thought.... the building of Zobeide, a City of Desire... the building of delusions....