It's Greek to me.
RB
Mary Larsgaard wrote:
> Does this sound familiar to anyone?
>
> "In the 70s I read a book a poetry by one of the South American poets.
> In this book (which I’ve not been able to locate since) he quoted a
> paragraph taken from I know not what that might have been called
> the Art of Cartography. It was written in prose form but had the
> feeling of poetry. It was about a small (presumably European, perhaps
> Medieval) town that had been dedicated to perfecting the art of
> cartography.
> They had gone so far in an effort to reach the ultimate levels of
> accuracy and
> scale that they had produced a map of their own locale that it literally
> covered the entire town inch by inch."
>
> I do remember Lewis Carroll's comment about
> the only really useful maps having a scale
> of 1:1, but the above doesn't ring a bell.
>
> Mary
>
>
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