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Marco Polo's Description Of Zenobia

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When I first read Marco Polo’s description of Zenobia, my mind was immediately intrigued. When he described a city on “on high pilings, with many platforms and balconies placed on stilts at various heights,” (35) my mind instantly recalled Salvador Dalí’s painting Elephants. These elephants had large, wide, hefty looking bodies, with coned houses on their backs, and small, stick-like legs. So, like Dalís painting, I drew my houses grande, tall, and wide, and my bases and supporting structures small like sticks. Then, somewhat like how treehouses connect, I added in ladders and floating sidewalks to connect each of the houses and placed water barrels and fishing poles around the houses as well. As to the “Zenobia a-flutter with banners and

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