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palimpsest /ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/ I. noun 1. a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. 2. something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form

Speed’s map was not just a representation of the land; it was a statement of ownership, of knowledge, of control. It was an attempt to impose a rational grid upon a wild and messy world.

The air here felt different, sterile. The gardens were brutally manicured, the flowerbeds arranged in joyless, geometric patterns. It was a landscape that had been disciplined into submission, stripped of all its wildness, its memory.