Although these "sights" take on a different appearance in the hands of different writers, as the Italian novelist Italo Calvino writes, "When people observe a city or scenery, they don't discover anything, but they confirm much. They confirm what they have learned from books. They confirm the image of some place's distinctive feature that already exists in their minds. They confirm a desire or a fear."
相同的景點在不同人的筆下，呈現了不同的風貌，但很難避免的，如同義大利小說家卡爾維諾所表達「人們『觀望』城市、旅遊風景，它不發現什麼，但卻印證了許多，它印證了我們在書本上得知的，對某個地方的記號，印證了人們的想像，渴望或恐懼。