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When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave; the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain. |
They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away. |
Thus...you come upon the ruins of abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away; spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form. (trading cities4) |
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