All that Has Past is Past: Steppe landscape confuses calligraphy for cartography, as strokes of a silkroad sign the sand “and thus arabesque the page.” (Finnegans Wake, p 115.3) Algorithms interwoven in the Khorezmsh landscape fluctuate between the nomadic and the domestic. Metropoleis tied themselves as knots to the itinerant flights of silk-ribboned roads. Nodal cities coalesced where tongues of slaking rivers and snaking trade routes fork and join.

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