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The Compatibility Gene •
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There was once an empire where the art of map-making enjoyed the highest reverence. Old maps seemed insufficient, and the Cartographers Guild set out to attain a description of the empire that was truly perfect. But this ultimate ambition – a point-by-point rendition of all the land only produced a map the same size as the empire itself. The work of the greatest minds culminated in an exact description of the land – which turned out to be entirely useless. The perfect map was left discarded, and subsequent generations gave less importance to the art of cartography. ‘In the Deserts of the West, still today,’ Broges writes, ‘there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.’ ~ Page105
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