so long, map face!
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. [...] 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.
--jorge luis borges, from on exactitude in science.
The designers of the Arkansas
Were inspired to choose a form that was
The exact dimensions and the shape
of the state whose name she bore
Yes the ship was shaped like Arkansas
And the hull was formed without a flaw
Every detail had been reproduced
on a scale of one to one
[...]
When the rising tide engulfs the shore
And the waves roll over Arkansas
Will the ship return to anchor there
and replace the sunken state?
--john linnell, from arkansas.
--jorge luis borges, from on exactitude in science.
The designers of the Arkansas
Were inspired to choose a form that was
The exact dimensions and the shape
of the state whose name she bore
Yes the ship was shaped like Arkansas
And the hull was formed without a flaw
Every detail had been reproduced
on a scale of one to one
[...]
When the rising tide engulfs the shore
And the waves roll over Arkansas
Will the ship return to anchor there
and replace the sunken state?
--john linnell, from arkansas.