On exactitude in Diciplinary Science: A Response to the Network Manifesto

In that Empire, the Art of Cartographyt attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of Province. In time, those. Unconscionable Mps no longer satisfied, and the Catographers Guilds struct a Map of the Empire whose size as that of the Empire, and which concided 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 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 Beggarrs; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the disciplines of Geography. (Borges, 1998:325)