| 4 | Trade Cities

״ In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city's life, the inhabitants stretch strings between the corners of their houses: white, black, or gray threads, depending on whether they mark relations of blood, trade, authority, or agency. As time goes on, when the threads become so numerous that it is no longer possible to pass among them, the inhabitants dismantle the houses;
they leave, taking only the strings and their supports.
  From a mountain, beside the ruins of Ersilia, travelers watch the tangled web of strings, still hanging in mid-air.
 The inhabitants relocate and begin again: they build new houses, attach new strings to the corners, and gradually create a new network of relationships. Once they move away, the remains of the abandoned city consist only of the suspended strings, floating in the air like memories.
  Thus, when you travel across Ersilia, you come across the ruins of former cities, all bearing the marks of their complex systems of relationships, now uninhabited. ״

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