Back to AtD p. 947 the map is the territory

[David Morris]

Clearly P was referencing this Borges snip.

On Friday, August 17, 2012, Monte Davis wrote:

> Maybe Borges’ “On  Exactitude in Science”?****
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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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'owner-pynchon-l at waste.org');> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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> 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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> Why? Wha?****
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