GRGR(3): Borders

[Doug Millison]

At 12:45 PM -0500 6/2/99, keith woodward wrote:
>The first part of GR is riddled with border theories.  Already, we have
>been introduced to Slothrop's map of London (by virtue of being a map, it
>itself is centrally concerned with borders)

It's hardly worth mentioning, but wouldn't "peripherally concerned with
borders" be more accurate, since borders are located at the periphery of an
enclosed space and not at the center? Guess it depends on what "centrally"
means, as we saw in another recent GRGR discussion.

Then there's the notion, most recently capitalized upon by fast food giant
Taco Bell, of "the border" as a region all it's own, a fuzzily defined
area, a Zone made possible by boundary lines. And we come full circle to
the line-drawing and map-making of M&D, which would seem to share this
central concern with GR.

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