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 > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected], > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
