Two town halls for parading past.
41.6. Two sets of lights, road signs, post boxes.
41.7. Electrics, telephone systems, even double drains.
41.7.1. Twin natural monopoly fun.
41.8. Two lots of media, because a uniform babble wasn’t enough.
42. Each side its own newspaper too.
42.1. Each used to be content to stir the pot,
42.1.1. to keep things a little spicy, entertaining.
42.2. But that was before ‘prevailing economic imperatives’ meant things had to get hotter.
42.3. War sells papers, they thought.
42.3.1. That they weren’t wrong about. Pity it wasn’t a long-term redoubt.
43. Like they’d been planning for it, two sets of policemen became two armies.
43.1. Small armies, sure.
43.2. But when you’ve got a grenade without a pin at your feet, who’s counting the infantry wandering past?
44. Everyone pasted their particular allegiance on their front door,
44.1. the good citizens, the loyal citizens, patriotic citizens.
44.2. So it wasn’t hard for the opposing team to find them,
44.2.1. deal with them.
45. A gap in the crack of history.
46. No one steamrollered these little parcels of land, these little statelets into one empire’s pancake.
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