1. I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6. - Steven Wright
The story...describes an empire where cartography becomes so exact that only a map on the same scale as the empire itself will suffice. Later generations come to disregard the map, however, and as it decays, so does the land and society beneath it. [Wikipedia]
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https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf
The story...describes an empire where cartography becomes so exact that only a map on the same scale as the empire itself will suffice. Later generations come to disregard the map, however, and as it decays, so does the land and society beneath it. [Wikipedia]
And based on that in turn, Umberto Eco's "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1": https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/881694/cb6119367b...