“Yes, exactly! And I think it’s all right, as answers go. But I got there because I thought, what is a country before a country? And I thought of Arcadia. And I thought, what is a country after a country? And I thought … That’s Arcadia too. So how can it have borders to defend, if it’s always in the past, or always in the future? What could it defend against?” “Perhaps,” said Rin, “that is how it defends itself.”
