Map of the Jesuit Telegraph

[John Bailey]

Oops, I mean internet.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ches/map/gallery/isp-ss.gif

I have no idea of the seriousness of this map (and it's a bit out of date, 
really) but I found it interesting, or at least pretty.

Which is enough for me.

for variations:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ches/map/gallery

At least of relevance when you consider the human urge to map, to render, to 
describe space as found in M&D. The internet as ley-lines, anyone?

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: MDDM Ch. 50 "all are Text"
>Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 07:14:20 +1100
>
>
>487.11 "any Runagate craz'd enough to sail West."
>
>runagate n. (archaic) a vagabond, fugitive, or renegade [16th C: variant of
>renegade; also deriving from "run" + *agate*, an obsolete term for "away"]
>
>487.18 "This 'New World' was ever a secret Body of Knowledge,-- meant to be
>studied with the same dedication as the Hebrew Kabbala would demand. Forms
>of the Land, the flow of water, the occurrence of what us'd to be call'd
>Miracles, all are Text,-- to be attended to, manipulated, read, 
>remember'd."
>
>Cf., of course, Derrida's "Il n'y a pas de hors-texte" also:
>
>http://cabvoltaire.virtualave.net/andex3.htm
>
>best
>
>
>on 7/5/02 4:43 PM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > "As above, so below"
> >
> > This phrase comes from the beginning of The Emerald
> > Tablet and embraces the entire system of traditional
> > and modern magic which was inscribed upon the tablet
> > in cryptic wording by Hermes Trismegistus. The
> > significance of this phrase is that it is believed to
> > hold the key to all mysteries. All systems of magic
> > are claimed to function by this formula.  "That which
> > is above is the same as that which is below ...
> > Macrocosmos is the same as microcosmos. The universe
> > is the same as God, God is the same as man, man is the
> > same as the cell, the cell is the same as the atom,
> > the atom is the same as ... and so on, ad infinitum."
> >
> > http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/a/below_above.html
> >
> > The most significant part of The Emerald Tablet is
> > within its opening: "That which is above is like that
> > which is below and that which is below is like that
> > which is above, to achieve the wonders of the one
> > thing." Therefore, "This is the foundation of
> > astrology and alchemy: that the microcosm of mankind
> > and the earth is a reflection of the macrocosm of God
> > and the heavens."
> >
> > http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/e/emerald_tablet_the.html
> >
> > "Due to the relation between microcosmos and
> > macrocosmos, man is influenced by the planets, the
> > 'hieroglyphs of nature'."
>




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