Maybe not so serious (and a bit long):
"He had bought a large map representing the sea,
Without the least vestige of land:
And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
A map they could all understand.
"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"
So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
"They are merely conventional signs!
"Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes!
But we've got our brave Captain to thank:
(So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best--
A perfect and absolute blank!"
Lewis Carroll - Hunting of the Snark, Fit the Second
Anne Buchanan
Assistant Librarian, Local Studies Cataloguer,
Bath Central Library
Bath
BA1 5AN
01225 787400
-----Original Message-----
From: Irvine, David [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 May 2004 15:13
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: MAP QUOTATIONS
Importance: High
We are hosting a Cartography Open Day for our in-house Sales and
Marketing staff and plan to decorate the office with banners of short
quotations from the great and good. Some suggestions so far are:
"Any map is better than no map at all" Napolean on his retreat from
Moscow.
"So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o'er uninhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns" Jonathan Swift.
"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even
glancing at" Oscar Wilde.
"He could jazz up his map-reading class by having a full-size color
photograph of Betty Grable in a bathing suit, with a co-ordinate system
laid over it" Norman Mailer.
"Australia is a big blank map, and the whole people is constantly
sitting over it like a committee, trying to work out the best way to
fill it in." Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean.
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it!" Yogi Berra
Can anyone suggest any attributed additions? Thanks and regards,
David Irvine
BA FRGS FB Cart. S.
Senior Cartographic Editor
AA Publishing Cartography
Penthouse Suite
Fanum House
BASINGSTOKE
RG21 4EA
Tel: 01256 493655
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