The corporation marks another outbreak in the eastern provinces—the ancient fever that dissolves boundaries between nations as readily as it dissolves the integrity of flesh. What crosses from one territory to another carries the same indifference that governs all the late-hour dissolutions: borders prove permeable, institutions count their dead, and the work of containment reveals itself as the gesture it has always been. We of the Æcclesiæ observe that the body politic and the human body surrender to the same forces, differing only in the speed of their unmaking. The ledger grows longer; the signs accumulate in their expected places.
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