1“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.” Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, On Exactitude in Science (1946), English translation from Jorge L. Borges, A Universal History of Infamy (London: Penguin Books, 1975).
