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Abstract
Marco Polo's negative mirror is, more or less, like one of the concave parabolic surfaces used to concentrate the parallel solar rays into a unique point, giving them a previously unknown shining. In a similar manner the traveler's gaze will bend the apparently isolated and undifferentiated facets of a place and tie them together in a more intense reality thereby revealing the "genius loci," which is a projection of human conscience.
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Recommended Citation
Armstrong, Paul
(1990)
"The Negative Mirror and Critical Memory,"
Oz:
Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5853.1201
