scientific organization

Royal Society of Literature

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British

 makes places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.

I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.

is that before which the world was limitless. It gave the world shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

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