NP (1 to 1 joke): Back to AtD p. 947 the map is the territory

[Mark Kohut]

just channel-jumped to a Colbert Show where he is on The Intrepid it seems, talking
to the Commander who has just spoken of the 1-40 scale model they have on board
when Colbert, standing by a real plane, says he prefers the 1 to 1 scale model....."gives
a better sense of the actual size".......


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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>; 'pynchon -l' <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Cc: Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: Back to AtD p. 947 the map is the territory


Surley this is the germ of the use, yes, thanks much......(maybe the math too, dunno).........
and I would suggest one level of meaning in this section of AtD is that,
unlike the natives who simply live in the territory, Cyprian's necessary double-mindedness
(in some sense) in trying to cover the territory and find the Interdict is implied---remember how the
regular citizens even got evasive and vague when he tried to ask them for help?
 
A lived-in territory is now a mapped territory predicting (loosely) War. For Cyprian and those he represents.
 


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From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
To: 'Mark Kohut' <markekohut at yahoo.com>; 'pynchon -l' <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 3:40 AM
Subject: RE: Back to AtD p. 947 the map is the territory


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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