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Our willingness to rely on the map is commensurate with our ability to suspend our disbelief in its veracity, but this amounts to a willingness to accept the map as an eye where the eye, too, no more than selectively brings into being a world that is socially constructed

Denis Wood and John Fels The Power of Maps 1992 Thomas Leiper Kane Collection, Library of Congress Hebraic Section, Guilford Press