It is «fixed,» not perfectly, «but it is fixed.»

It is not fixed, not completely.

It changes with time, but there is…

A…

It is only a description, but something we can find in common.

In one way, it does not adapt,

In another way, it adapts.

But if we look at what does not adapt, we see how it is obstructed

Within itself, and how this gives

Its way of acting a peculiarity, or a series of peculiarities,

Or it adapts in order to sink further. It listens, but not as an ally;

It listens, but it can also act somewhat as an ally.

«Fossilized,» old patterns remain —

Patterns that once would have

served some function.

Remnants of a different past. In these fossils, and in the other

Patterns, we can find a map,

A map of great importance, a famous map (to me),

(I don’t quite understand this song) O mapa.

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