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Oikoumene

Alexey Tikhonov

Oikou­mene — is a term ori­gin­ally used in the Greco-Roman world to refer to the inhab­ited uni­verse (or at least the known part of it). Inhab­ited Uni­verse People tend to illu­min­ate the places they live in, be it houses or streets or cit­ies. And the more light there is around, the closer is dark­ness and mys­tery out­side. So, strangely, the edge of civ­il­ized world becomes almost tan­gible, lies some­where between the nearest lamp­post and small patch of wood behind the high­way. This is ongo­ing project.