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Less than an hour later, I came across an unfinished mud building.

	A letterboxed frame, seen through a white-framed window in a mud wall, entered through a boxed picket fence gateway, which has an X and two flags above it. Island of the Orthodox, fractal subset of This Island Earth, which, though an island, has lots of estuaries and peninsulas around which are clustered lots and lots of little islands like this one, which have fully functioning micro-economies, and often offer cultural sanctuary for the forgotten or forbidden or the out of place, or simply any sincere minority that manages to get there first.

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The Monastery:

A very short time after Jacob is abandoned by the dancing letters, he arrives at a half-finished adobe monastery hidden in the desert scrub. There, between the open roofed walls of library still under construction, Jacob talks to an Orthodox monk who advises him that there are bees many miles down range, hived within the monument marker at Trinity Site, where the Army lit the first plutonium bomb.