Back to AtD p. 947 the map is the territory

[Prashant Kumar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer_fixed-point_theorem#Illustrations

I read it this way. Cyp and Yashmeen are living (at that point) in a
disjoint part of a fictionalised reality, where there is no map. The
distinction between representation and reality consequently blurs. Their
map and real coordinates concur, but there's no indication of the narrative
plane they inhabit. Lost *and* found. One-to-one in mathspeak means a
direct relation between two sets
(injectivity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injectivity>
).

P.

On 17 August 2012 20:40, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> Maybe Borges’ “On  Exactitude in Science”?****
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> ** **
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> “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.”****
>
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> *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****
>
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> p. 947 Cyprian, who had been inhabiting a one-to-one scale map of the****
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> Peninsula since arriving.".......****
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>  ****
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> Is TRP conveying, in a serious joking way, that here, hunting for the
> Interdict, the map IS the ****
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> territory?.....Something else?****
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>  ****
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> Why? Wha?****
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