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foundations—the cracked and sunken tracts of pavement that are now the silted bottoms of shallow lakes—the immense chemical deserts where nothing grows except a thin, purplish bloom of bacteria on poisonous water seeps.
But then, it's not certain that anything has a name in Nna Mmoy.
Laure has spent more time in utopia" than most people. I asked him to write me anything he wanted about it. He sent the following letter:

YOU ASKED ABOUT THE LANGUAGE. You've described the problem well, I think. It might help to think of it this way:
We talk snake. A snake can go any direction but only one direction at one time, following its head.
They talk starfish. A starfish doesn't go anywhere much. It has no head. It keeps more choices handy, even if it doesn't use them.