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The map is not the territory. Or, at more length and in more depth, The Analytical Language of John Wilkins by Borges.
by flir 4y ago
The map is not the territory.
Or, at more length and in more depth, The Analytical Language of John Wilkins by Borges.
- janalsncm 4y agoThank you for sharing, the wiki has a pretty funny note: > Lewis Carroll, in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), made the point humorously with his description of a fictional map that had "the scale of a mile to the mile". A character notes some practical difficulties with such a map and states that "we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well."
- flir 4y agoI'm reminded of: "I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it." - Steven Wright