MDMD: maps

[Jasper Fidget]

Great fun with maps here: 

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/plates.html?id=550003

Contemporary, historical, full of data, even Martian.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org 
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Dave Monroe
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:49 PM
> To: Doug Millison; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: MDMD: maps
> 
> 
> Yr much welcome.  Cartography's a longstanding
> interest of mine, my earliest datable memory is
> getting aglobe for my second Christmas (that, or
> smacking my dad in the face with an Etch-a-Sketch
> after watching a Three Stooges short; teevee violence
> was much frowned upon in the household after that
> episode ...).  But the prescience of that Brian Jarvis
> chapter (from his Postmodern Cartographies) given the 
> appearance on Mason & Dixon betwixt writing and publication 
> more than makes up for such egregious errors as ...
> 
> "... Benny Profane is driven underground, beneath the
> streets, to the waste and promissory darkness of the
> New York sewer system.  Here ... he joins up with a
> gang of poor Italian immigrants ...." (Jarvis, p. 58)
> 
> You know, I believe I've seen that one pointed out
> elsewhere (here? where?) ...
> 
> --- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
> wrote:
> > Great stuff on maps, Dave -- thanks.
> 
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