attic · a country no longer named that
the colours are still right. the borders are not. a country in the upper right has been renamed twice since the lacquer dried; two more have stopped being countries entirely.
it spins under your finger and the seas behave correctly. the cartographer's small certainties have outlived the cartographer.
field-note: an inked correction near the northern coast, in a hand not the original maker's.
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