” (…) 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. (…) “
- Jorge Luis Borges, “On Exactitude in Science,” translated by Andrew Hurley, copyright Penguin 1999
” If I knew the answer to two plus two, I’d say four.”
- Phil Loomis
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