the destruction of all but official endorsed images ensured a controlling monopoly over the citizens of the iconoclastic empire / this monopoly reflected the godlike conceptions of the pragmatic and zealous iconoclasts / absolute surveillance / as a clandestine painter within this attempted monopoly / Fishface had expended considerable energy attempting to create rebellious images by which he could prove to himself the existence of windows unto other time / yet as he began to map these windows he clearly saw rebellion lay within the empire / only through those windows unto other time / vaster than the empire’s capacity to control / could some measure of escape be achieved / in order to finance these cartographic preparations he prepared seriously to prepare the box of acceptable images / question was could he mimic with sufficient discipline and intelligence the inconsequentiality that followed pragmatic acceptance of the iconoclastic bid for power