A house divided against itself cannot stand. – Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, 16 June 1858
Report XI. Filed from the ninth terrace of the Cut. In 1971 two academies tried to leave the other two. The Lyceum and the Theatre, tired of being outvoted at the Index, resolved to cut the Band down the middle along its whole length and live on their own half. They borrowed the excavators that had built the Congress Hall in 1958 and began to dig. They had been digging for four months when the Grove's mathematicians finished a paper they should have finished first. A band with half a twist, cut along its centre, does not fall into two. It becomes one band, twice as long, with two whole twists in it, and with two sides. The seceders would not have got their own academy. They would have got a longer one, with a back. The paper was printed without review, because its subject was the Band, and the Band cannot review. The Index stopped the works eleven kilometres in, three kilometres short of where they began. Nobody has dared to finish. There is a heresy, held quietly in the Cut and less...
From the lore of The Möbius Academy.