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Construction
People see foreign villas and towers in mirrors and find them great, so that they deconstruct their own house and want to change them into the foreign style as they see in the mirror. However, craftsmen don’t have the knowledge to build that kind of buildings, to satisfy citizens, they build many simple boxes and painted foreign feature on the facades. They keep paint things like arch doors, arch windows, Ionic columns, dome and relievos on new houses. Although these buildings are just crude imitation with ludicrous effects, citizens of Atlantis like them a lot. After a period, the craftsmen start to forget how to build in their own style and the new Atlantis loss its technique forever.
2011-02-22
Tin Factory
Now the city has to subsist without the supply by Poseidon, so it decides to trade with other lands. New Atlantis is good at making tins. (Metaphorize into Intermodal container) It’s easy to catch fish or shrimps around it and make them into fish tins. But that’s not enough. For earning more money, peoples package their house in tins, cut trees to made wood tins, fill sea water into tins, even more, they package themselves into tins to sell to the world. For the inexpensive price and huge quantity of tins, gradually, Atlantis becomes the biggest factory which producing different kinds of tins in the world. At the same time, some of the other lands become to rely on the cheap products of Atlantis. Using these tins, Atlantis exchanges a lot of things that comes from other lands. They barter their fish and shrimp with fish oil and shrimp paste; barter their house with concrete and sand, barter their trees with foreign sapling and seed.
2011-02-15
The New Atlantis
The new Atlantis has become a marine city, which is not belongs to the sea as well as the land. What remain is just a skeleton, all the other things has left in the bottom of the sea. People decide to pull the whole city to a mainland for they have already abandoned or be abandoned by their sea god Poseidon. Chasing the beautiful future and hope, everybody in Atlantis tries hard searching a wonderful mainland and pulling the city to go forward.
Then, the new Atlantis begins to travel. As Atlantis has already abandoned its technology in its rebirth, people have to paddle the Oar of Atlantis all by hand, just like ancient people transit the big stones of pyramid in Egypt. However, people don’t know where the mainland is, what they can do is just use the maximum power to pull the city and follow the surrounding people. When others turn left, they turn left, when others turn right, they turn right, when others stop, they stop. There are several people in the front try to lead the city, but they just let the whole city go on the rampage. In order to let all the citizens can find the direction, the city rise a pillar and put a guide on the top of it. Even this guide not really pointing at a mainland, but people feel peaceful as they see it and believe they are in the right direction.
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