Back to AtD p. 947 the map is the territory

[Prashant Kumar]

Oh I'm sure the Borges is the source, I just find that theorem charming.

P.

On 20 August 2012 23:33, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>   *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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