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A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
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[761]
From Blank to Blank—
A Threadless Way
I pushed Mechanic feet—
To stop—or perish—or advance—
Alike indifferent—
If end I gained
It ends beyond
Indefinite disclosed—
I shut my eyes—and groped as well
'Twas lighter—to be blind—
From Blank to Blank—
A Threadless Way
I pushed Mechanic feet—
To stop—or perish—or advance—
Alike indifferent—
If end I gained
It ends beyond
Indefinite disclosed—
I shut my eyes—and groped as well
'Twas lighter—to be blind—
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Homewards
A telephone call ran out in the night and glittered
over the
countryside and in the suburbs.
Afterwards I slept uneasily in the hotel bed.
I was like the needle in a compass carried through
the
forest by an orienteer with a thumping heart.
~
On Exactitude in Science
... 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 longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a
Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point
for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study
of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless,
and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the
Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there
are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the
Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
Suárez
Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lérida, 1658
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We spent time with the texts--reading them aloud multiple times with different people reading them each time, making observations and connections, and so on. We then put the students into pairs (mostly) and told them to make some sort of digital artifact that puts the texts in conversation with visual information, which they could make themselves or find. Below are the results. (Click for larger views.)
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