maps

think of this thing as the phenomenon of maps—not as any particular map. and consider this excerpt from jorge luis borges:

"let us imagine that a portion of the soil of england has been levelled off perfectly and that on it a cartographer traces a map of england. the job is perfect; there is no detail of the soil of england, no matter how minute, that is not registered on the map; everything has there its correspondence. this map, in such a case, should contain a map of the map, which should contain a map of the map of the map, and so on to infinity."

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