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140|1|24. 24/X: in a mountainous fertile region near Orchomenus in West Arcadia, at first a single bar that comprised all the various structures and necessities of the community, spread linearly, housing its municipalities, markets, its residences and their spiritual institutions, their factories and prison houses, as well as their highly developed road structure and high speed transit traveling without interruption in a loop along a North-South vector of its orientation; a sudden onrush of interests drawn by the ingenuity of its pristine efficiency, presented an urgency to separate the expediency of its utility as a living machine from the leisurely detour of its visitors; and thus a decision was made by duplicating the city such that now two seemingly identical bars cross each other at their centres- one driven by the dutiful promptness of a clockwork to ensure its perpetual operation; and the other by the synchronicity of its simulations and conjectures given to amusement. Throughout the years the two have come to be signified by a single sound-form that utters "Eks", or "Aks", and in some languages denote both: 'a replica as in an image', and, 'the opposite of something'; ∑X=24