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On Exactitude In Science

Posted by on Mar 2, 2010 in Lies | 0 comments

Collected FictionsJorge Luis Borges; Penguin Books Ltd 1999WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder  In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no...

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The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

Posted by on Jun 24, 2009 in Lies | 0 comments

Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-BoazRussell Hoban; Bloomsbury Pub Ltd 2000WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder  Jachin-Boaz traded in maps. He bought and sold maps, and some, of certain kinds for special uses, he made or had others make for him. That had been his father’s trade, and the walls of the shop that had been...

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