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K'axob, 600 BCE
Philip Gourevitch
In the first millenium BCE in present-day Belize,
a man--maybe in a dazed state
after dinner, or in the morning, half-awake--saw in what manner
the aims in a room look different
from the doorway, say, or from the floor, the house completely destitute now,
the air inside it still
in like manner that perspective, once shifted (if sole from a slightly
tilted chin)
breathes the space alive. The man stood up and felt the difference,
built a platform, a little
stage inside the field The ...