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Chaos is a map-maker's concept. After you have drawn in the part of the world you know, you must fill in to the edge of the parchment. Always a little beyond known seas begin the chimeras and monsters which obviously exist. They occupy the page to the edge where the border says we can stop, breathless. But we never know what is beyond the limits of our map and mind. On clear days we venture into that darkness, we take all that we know from our world and because we cannot know better, define our new visions with...
...loudspeaker in every home. The Chinese told their American guests that only 5% of the people disagreed with Mao's policies, and they were being "reeducated" in labor camps. In China, of course, 5% of the populace amounts to 40 million persons. Reports Wong Bing-wong: "The life map of China still has its peaks and valleys. Politically there are areas where people in substantial numbers do not, or at least try not to, have anything to do with the party or Mao Tse-tung...
...nation's total energy consumption in 1970 was 71 Q. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the country contains 5,162 Q of oil, 3,317 Q of natural gas and 32,000 Q of coal. In addition, Canada holds resources far exceeding its own energy needs (see map...
...Samuel Eliot Morison stoppeth one of three-among the myths that pass for history in the European discovery of America. As a seagoing admiral, U.S.N.R. (and Harvardman), Morison gives the back of his salty hand to those modern "library navigators" (particularly Yalemen) who in 1965 swallowed whole the Vinland map story. Morison sees a fine post-1600 hand behind this document, which was dated about 1440 by its discoverers. "I have 'serious reservations,' " he writes, "the polite scholarly term for saying that you suspect fakery." Growling about "phony voyages," he swiftly slaps down as nonsense the folk legend...
Somehow, between all the landfalls, mini-histories are fitted in-asides about mutinies and scholarly lectures on navigation, on fishing, on map making, on sea chanteys ("Heisa, heisa, vorsa, vorsa, wow, wow," to quote one). The sea turns Morison into a lyric poet who sometimes applies looser moral standards to seamen than to shorebound sinners...