140|23|3265. 23 8 5 14/When: In the course of its existence the four sided polygon comprising the present republic has been through innumerable transformations in every aspect, the extent and geometry of its borders have been persistently breached by the neighbouring rivals that has triggered epic wars which have never been fully settled since there are no traces to chart the initial settlements on either sides; empires have been overthrown and replaced by other empires, occupiers have taken possession of it again and again, petty kings, oligarchs; revolutions have carved through it with the boring power of cyclones; ideologies have spread like an epidemic; religion with its long garb have shrouded its communities like a vampire; poets who resurrected its myths have been crushed; art has been sidelined to obsolete claptrap, their nudes forbidden, public executions have replaced them, celebrated as the official device of aesthetic experience; and their songs and language have changed, their textbooks censored and rewritten with every shift of power-totalitarian jargon enforced by the police, knowledge is appropriated, institutionalized and recruited as their weapon; the testimony of ruins have been wiped given to corporate parks under the rubric of memorials; histories condemned to amnesia are fully refurbished or manufactured; time itself has been prolonged, hours are inversely customized to obscure its regressions. All this and other innumerable flurries of manipulations afforded to power structures obtain entirely new organizations of fabricated facts such that when we browse its libraries turned to a morgue of defunct texts, shelves filled with urns of ashed scribbles, neither the legitimacy of their truth nor the credibility of its presence as the embodiment of a probable past and its future could be verified; ∑When= E
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