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"I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it." - Steven Wright
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kentuck
Jun 2019
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unblock
(52,253 posts)1. i have a map of the world. it's actual size.
the scale says: one inch equals one inch.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2. Borges wrote about your map
Its called On Exactitude in Science and was published in 1946. It takes the form of a literary forgery, supposedly a quotation from the fictional Suárez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lérida, 1658.
This is the whole piece
. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography
https://360.here.com/2015/06/14/70-year-old-short-story-goes-heart-modern-map-making/
This is the whole piece
. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography
https://360.here.com/2015/06/14/70-year-old-short-story-goes-heart-modern-map-making/
mopinko
(70,132 posts)4. i love him. "you might think that my socks dont match. but that is because
i go by thickness."
words to live by.