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1. I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6. - Steven Wright

2. On Exactitude of Science - Borges.

https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf

The story...describes an empire where cartography becomes so exact that only a map on the same scale as the empire itself will suffice. Later generations come to disregard the map, however, and as it decays, so does the land and society beneath it. [Wikipedia]

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> On Exactitude of Science - Borges.

And based on that in turn, Umberto Eco's "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1": https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/881694/cb6119367b...