Started reading some of Guiliana Bruno's Atlas of Emotion. Thinking more about the map recently. What is it that I really want to map? The route from one corn garden to the other. But there's something more there about memory; memory of the city; having the imagination to remember the past; the past as another layer of meaning in the present; excavation (again this); the bicycle journey; the pathways transformed to highways. Picked up a used copy of the Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries at Housingworks a couple days ago. Been looking at it. Will let things sit for now, and read.
Here's a picture of Madeleine de Scudéry's Carte du pays de Tendre, in Clelia (1678). Mapping tenderness. I like that.
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