AtDtDA(28): Cities, Unmapped, Sacramental Places

[Dave Monroe]

I HOPE Monte doesn't mind me forwarding this ...

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From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>
Date: Mar 23, 2008 1:38 PM
Subject: RE: AtDtDA(28): Cities, Unmapped, Sacramental Places
To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>

> > "'Do you remember once, years ago, we talked of cities, unmapped,
> > sacramental places ...'" (AtD, Pt. IV, p. 790)
>
> Recall ...
>
> "... the fabled Sfinciuno Intinerary, a map or chart of
> post-Polo routes into Asia, believed by many to lead to the
> hidden city of Shambhala itself." (AtD, Pt. II, p. 248)

Or the outskirts of the Columbian Exposition:

"As if the half-light ruling this perhaps even unmapped periphery were
not a simple scarcity of streetlamps but deliberately provided in the
interests of mercy..." (22)

Or Lew and Troth discussing his unnamed crime:

"All through their long discussion they had been walking, walkers in
the urban unmappable, and had reached a remote and unfamiliar part of
the city" (38)

Or Vormance:

"Somewhere in [the Sky], God dwells in His Heavenly City. How far into
that unmapped wilderness shall we journey before we find Him?" (131)

Or Fleetwood, gazing at NYC with Kit from the Vibe estate:

"There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too
many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is
always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography
is as much spiritual as physical." (165)

Or the Chums' arival in Marco Poloville:

"From their stations the fellows now beheld the island-city of Venice
below them, looking like some map of itself printed in an ancient
sepia..." (243)

Or Miles:

"We went from two dimensions, infant's floor-space, out into town-and
map-space, ever toddling our way into the third dimension, till as
Chums recruits we could take the fateful leap skyward..." (427)

Jeez, it's as if 773 cartographic pages with Charles and Jeremiah
hadn't even begun to cover the territory, eh?