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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
December 16, 2014 |
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Uncharted Territories –
October 16, 2014 |
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Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up? –
February 26, 2014 |
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We enjoyed mapping out a fun Jonathan Caws-Elwitt bit.
The caption reads: "Really?? How did you arrive at that conclusion?" "Well, I was coming from Premise Point, so I took Logic Boulevard and then made a sharp deduction. Then I went straight on Reasoning Avenue until I came to another clearly marked deduction. But if you're coming from Hypothesis Heights, you can also get there via the Experience Loop: just follow it around the perimeter of Empirical Square for a while, then take the first right induction after your evidence tank reads 'full.'" — Jonathan Caws-Elwitt
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
Jonathan Caws-Elwitt explains: "Hope asserts in passing that 'there are generally two ways anywhere'—which might be a dull observation if it were strictly a metaphor, but which in context he means literally (if perhaps not only literally). So, yes, there are generally not three, not one, but exactly two ways to get from a given point A to a given point B on the map" (personal correspondence, May 1, 2013). The Anthony Hope quotation appears in Frivolous Cupid.
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Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle. |
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Uncharted Territories –
March 9, 2011 |
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"Why didn't you tell me in the map room there was a map missing?" — Gwyn Cready, Aching for Always (2010)
(This delightful snippet is scanned from Book Sales of 1895.)
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Uncharted Territories –
June 22, 2010 |
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Thanks to the Wacky Web Sites blog, who covered our atlas of blank maps: According to webmaster Craig Conley, there are fundamental differences between a blank page and a blank map. A blank page is empty, whereas a blank map suggests space and orientation and is still designed by a cartographer. Conley takes this one step further, presenting blank maps suggested by history, folklore, or literature such as a landscape purified by snowfall, the unknown path Cleopatra must have taken after Actium, or what Babel looked like before it was built. |
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle. |
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Uncharted Territories –
August 30, 2007 |
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Uncharted Territories –
July 31, 2007 |
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Uncharted Territories –
May 29, 2007 |
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Jonathan writes:
A family member gave us a package of Hungarian noodles, which [my wife] Hilary and I were studying the other night, with an eye to figuring out how we might eventually prepare them.
On the back of the package was a recipe, in Hungarian. Though the alphabet is Roman, we found that neither of us could recognize or induce the meaning of a single word--unlike when we see something in, say, Swedish. And yet the structure of the text was completely familiar. Here was the list of ingredients, and there was the narrative that explained what to do with them. I realized that this visible recipe with invisible elements was, in effect, a blank map!
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