“…They organize conferences sometimes. Even have them in Beszel one year in every few.” Some consolation prize for our remnant-barred ground. “The last big one was a while ago, when they found that last cache of artefacts. I’m sure you all remember.” It had made the international press. The collection had quickly been given some name, but I could not remember it. It included an astrolabe and a geared thing, some intricate complexity as madly specific and untimed as the Antikythera mechanism, to which as many dreams and speculations had attached , and the purpose of which, similarly, no one had been able to reconstruct.
The City & The City, China Miéville.
archiveofaffinities: Rome During the time of Augustus, An Engraving from 1527
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fuckyeahsovietrussia: Postal snowmobile in the Khabarovsk Territory, 1983. ☭