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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.

Detail from Plate No. 7, Edition 112, showing the original compass and survey notation
Edition 112 / Year 233
Detail from Plate No. 7, Edition 113, showing revised compass and survey notation
Edition 113 / Year 250

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.

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Complete Plate No. 7, Edition 112 survey map of the Republic of Somewhere
Plate No. 7, Edition 112.
Complete Plate No. 7, Edition 113 survey map of the Republic of Somewhere
Plate No. 7, Edition 113.