AW: "The map is not..."

[Glory Ressler]

Reinhard,

This was truly lovely!!  Thank you for the interesting and alluring remembrance...
Very apropos for the holiday season.
Happy Holidays to all,
glory xoxo

Visuelle Protokolle wrote:

> since we work as mapmakers, drawing land- and seamaps for companies and
> organisations on a  metaphorical level, we look at this discussion with
> pleasure.
>
> We love to recommend the beautiful book of James Cowan "A Mapmakers Dream".
> In 16th-century Venice, a cloistered monk works on the dream of his life, to
> create a perfect map. In the process, the boundaries of his world are pushed
> to the extreme, raising questions about the relationship between
> representation, imagination and the nature of reality itself. He gathers all
> his informations from explorers, travellers, pilgrims and merchants who
> continue to visit him, but finally finds out:
>
>         "I now know that the visitor I have been  expecting all these years, the
> one in whom I have placed so much faith in providing me with the answers I
> so fervently sought, is none other than myself. I am my own informant, the
> only person capable of expressing the innate knowledge that resides in all
> of us. In me lies all the knowledge of the world, since it is my world alone
> that I wish to explore".
>
> Doing that, while listening to others, what could I add?
>
> Reinhard
>
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