July 6, 2008


Scene from an Imaginary Road Film


Fourth night: Navigating. How to lie with maps. July 6, 2008.

(Fourth in a series. To be continued, depending on the allure of the cartographic fiction.)

posted by Sheila Ryan in adventure, consciousness, movies 

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5 Responses to “Scene from an Imaginary Road Film”

  1. Michael Grant Smith on July 6th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    It doesn’t look like there’s far to go. A few inches, more or less.

  2. Sheila Ryan on July 6th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    That’s how it appeared at first. Then I kept driving and driving . . . . I think I’m chasing one of those mirages or fata morganas. Last night it was that St. Elmo’s fire.

    Reckon that’s what you get when you set out on an imaginary road trip.

  3. alek on July 7th, 2008 at 5:06 am

    in the 14thC the king of Aragon commissioned from the cartographer Abraham Cresque Le Juif, an atlas: The Catalan Atlas. This atlas left unknown parts of the earth blank and the blankness was labelled simply terra incognita. It was a challenge to any mariner who unfurled the chart

    imaginary catalan atlas

  4. alek on July 7th, 2008 at 5:22 am

    o i know me and them bloody boats again… what can i do

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