The world is full of horrors, violence and darkness. “If you want to know how much darkness their is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.” (pg.59)
“While, at a sign from you, sire, the unique and the final city raises its stainless walls, I am collecting the ashes of the other possible cities that vanish to make room for it, cities that can never be rebuilt or remembered. When you know at last the residue of unhappiness for which no precious stone can compensate, toward which that final diamond must strive. Otherwise, your calculations will be mistaken since the start.”
The diamond’s carats signifies the understanding of the human to realize the potential of his divinity. However, the purity of the diamond sinks within hardly reachable regions of the soul if the darkness outside becomes too powerful. The world will always remain abundant with hatred, violence and disgrace. However, its effects towards us are greater than what we expect. For it becomes our outer reality and dissembles our recognition of our inner beauty: our diamond. Our potential to reencounter our fading lights, depends on our strength.
The diamond is the hardest material known to man. It is our weapon, our sword to fight crime. However, our sword must be sharp, well incised, and designed to protect. Even if we see our diamond has diminished in size, it has not, we just have stopped maintaining it.
If we mistaken our calculations since the start, we would live in falsehood. Calvino states: “Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.” If we do not live up to our diamonds brilliant shine, we live under a darkness that unlike the diamond, is not part of us. Throughout Thin Cities–4, Trading Cities–3, Cities and Eyes–2, and finally Cities and Names–1, Calvino introduces the concepts of perspective, and value. Change can be seen in what we give value to or in our points of view. However, he reminds us that the diamond will never loose its value.
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