Back to AtD p. 947 the map is the territory

[Monte Davis]

Maybe Borges' "On  Exactitude in Science"?

 

"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."

 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Mark Kohut
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:38 PM
To: pynchon -l
Subject: Back to AtD p. 947 the map is the territory

 

p. 947 Cyprian, who had been inhabiting a one-to-one scale map of the

Peninsula since arriving.".......

 

Is TRP conveying, in a serious joking way, that here, hunting for the
Interdict, the map IS the 

territory?.....Something else?

 

Why? Wha?

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