With no mountains and no seasons they were limited to only dividing the land from the water, which they did in as many ways as possible, joining together smaller islands into larger one, digging enormous caverns beneath them, buying dirt from neighboring countries, creating new islands and putting lakes on them, and adding islands inside of these lakes, and every time they raised up some new part of Singapore they called it “reclamation,” as if it had always been there for the taking, as if the ocean were a thief, and there might be plenty more Singapore where that came from.