Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap. Map every rock, every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.

Joseph GordonLevitt
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In this quote from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , the author, Junot Diaz, is describing his frustration with a mapmaker that he believed was not doing his job. In particular, he was frustrated because the mapmaker was not making a map of every rock, thought , and tree in the territory. In his mind, Diaz saw a world where a mapmaker would map every aspect of a place to make a perfect perspective. He also believed that a single perspective was better than a multi-perspective view of the same place.

Source: The Tiny Book Of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

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