PEPECOTTA ARMY | 246 BC | TERRACOTTA FIGURES | UNEARTHED FROM A VAST SUBTERRANEAN CHAMBER BENEATH THE DESERT PLAINS OF KEKZHOU, THE PEPECOTTA ARMY STANDS AS ONE OF THE MOST ENIGMATIC MILITARY ASSEMBLAGES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, A REGIMENT NOT FORGED MERELY FOR WAR, BUT FOR THE PROTECTION OF MEMETIC CONTINUITY ITSELF. EACH FIGURE, SCULPTED FROM COARSE LOCAL CLAY, BEARS THE ICONIC PEPEAN VISAGE RENDERED WITH SOLEMN STILLNESS. THEIR ARMOR, ARRANGED IN DISCIPLINED GRIDWORK, RECALLS BOTH REAL INFANTRY PANOPLY AND A SYMBOLIC MATRIX OF REPEATING UNITS, AN EARLY METAPHOR, SCHOLARS SUGGEST, FOR THE REPLICATIVE STRUCTURE OF PROTO MEMES. TO THE ARTISANS OF THE PERIOD, THE FROG FACE WAS NOT HUMOROUS BUT SACRED, THE EMBODIMENT OF CYCLICAL REBIRTH, FERTILE IMAGINATION, AND THE UNPREDICTABLE SPARK OF COSMIC COMEDY.

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