Is There a Purpose?

After reading the first section, I was a little confused with the nature of the book. It is nothing like I have ever read. I was able to understand what was written. I was able to picture the cities in my mind. But I was unable to understand the purpose of these cities, or what is the connection between them for making a story. As I finished, I realized that there was no story, no purpose. I did come up with my own understanding of the writing. I don’t know I my assumptions are correct or not, but I will share them anyway. 

The first assumption I made was inspired by this sentence "all this beauties will already be familiar to the visitor, who has seen them also in other cities." this made me think that all cities are actually one, but in the eyes of different kinds of people. Out of this thought, I concluded that the title referred to all the "invisible" cities that lie within one.  The message I got while reading was that you make your own city. According to someone’s attitude they will live their lives in cities & memory or in cities & signs etc. For example, a person who lives their lives thinking about yesterday will be trapped in cities & memory. A place where happiness is not real and where “Desires are already memories.” – pg. 8 A person who has unlimited desires would live in Cities & Desire, where its variation signifies how everyone has different desires and where people are always wanting what others have.

I am pretty sure that there is much more to this book. Just how the author gave us two different ways of reading it, there are probably different ways of interpreting its content. I can’t wait to finish this book and find out what all these cities are really about.