An extract from The Cartographer’s ApologyOn being large enough to name
The Cartographer’s Apology
A map does not lie. Lying requires an alternative in mind. A map simply declines, at scale, to consider you.
The cartographers I admire most are the ones who left a margin note. Not a correction — a hesitation. Here the surveyor was tired. Here the river moved and we did not go back.
The extract ends here.
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