The city of Moriana is somehow hidden but you have to cross walls and rivers to find it. It is a magnificent city as described by the author "its alabaster gates transparent in the sunlight, its coral columns supporting pediments encrusted with serpentine." All of the details that are described by the author makes you want to fantasize or wish that even your city can be like Moriana one day. But in the end, the author is claiming that even though it seems like a beautiful city, the city is somehow boring. "From one part to the other, the city seems to continue, in perspective, multiplying its repertory of images: but instead it has no thickness, it consists only of a face and an obverse, like a sheet of paper, with a figure on either side, which can neither be separated nor look at each other."
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