Do you know Sapezabezit?
It has only two gates -- one east, one west. When you approach the east gate, you will be greeted by two children: a boy wearing red, and a girl in blue. The boy will smile, and the girl will wave.
Inside the city, you will find sellers of bread on the left, and traders of silk on the right.
The women do not speak, and the men do not dream.
This city was famous for its resident, the Mage of Sapezabezit, who was the first person ever to hypothesize that our language shapes our dreams. He would interview the merchants who passed through his city -- people from across the known world, from Mongolia to Gaul -- and ask them about their dreams. He found that, as a broad pattern, Greek speakers dreamed one way, Chinese speakers another, Ethiopic speakers yet another, and so on.
The Greeks interpreted the name thusly: sape = knowing; zabe = intuiting; zit = divided.
The Mongols say that the name refers to the city's iconic dish: a leaf of bread beside exactly two grilled cutlets of lamb.
When you leave Sapezabezit at the west gate, a boy will give you water, and a girl will give you a polished blue stone.
People will not believe you when you tell them about Sapezabezit, but you will dream about that city forever.
