Compass Hall / visual reading
Plate No. 7
The same survey sheet, revised seventeen years apart.
A second telling
Both maps are Plate No. 7 of the Republic Series: Edition 112, Year of the Republic 233, and Edition 113, Year of the Republic 250. Read side by side, they register changes the novella often leaves to objects and public language.
What changes
Look first at the compass rose and coordinate frame, then at the routes and their names. The sheet’s editorial language shifts from Revisions to Amendments, while South Warehouse becomes House South. The maps do not explain these changes; they ask readers to notice what official language can preserve, revise, or quietly set aside.
At least one further revision remains for readers to discover in the complete maps.
Cite and reproduce Plate No. 7
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- Suggested caption
- Plate No. 7 of the Republic Series, shown in Edition 112 (Year 233) and Edition 113 (Year 250), from Compass Hall: A Civic Fable by Colin Alexander.
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- Maps from Compass Hall: A Civic Fable © 2026 Colin Alexander. Courtesy of Somewhere Publishing.
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