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“When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to preten...”
“The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.”
“Maps codify the miracle of existence.”
“. . . 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 ti...”