MAGELLAN'S MAPMAKER
('sights and visions')
'The only way to know where anything
is is to put it there yourself. In that way,
understand the whole entire world - or
what you claim for it to be.' I thought I
could understand that - easily, like music
on a barge-trip, or those scat-singers
I'd heard in that old Cleveland church.
As he spoke them to me, I realized he
was gnawing on a leg of lamb. By
contrast to his words, that seemed
more strange to me. But then, I'd
already forgotten where we were.
('sights and visions')
'The only way to know where anything
is is to put it there yourself. In that way,
understand the whole entire world - or
what you claim for it to be.' I thought I
could understand that - easily, like music
on a barge-trip, or those scat-singers
I'd heard in that old Cleveland church.
As he spoke them to me, I realized he
was gnawing on a leg of lamb. By
contrast to his words, that seemed
more strange to me. But then, I'd
already forgotten where we were.
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