Re: DreamWords [was: pipe dreams]

[leslie bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

David Auerbach wrote:
>
> On 11/13/98 at 01:02 PM,
>  "Harrison, Shawn"  said (in so many
> words):
>
> <- Leslie Bialler said:
> <- ≪it seems to me that devising a word processor that
> <- emulates XyWrite when we already have XyWrite reminds me very much of
> <- the Borges story in which a cartographer attempts to draw a map of his
> <- region on a scale of 1:1.≫
>
> Actually, this conceptual joke goes back to Lewis Carroll's little read
> *Sylvie & Bruno*, wherein is mentioned a 1:1 map of England; it being
> awkward to unfold they used the country itself and it proved nearly as
> good. It is actually a fairly deep joke about representation.
>

Ah. Good to know.

Leslie Bialler
Columbia University Press
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