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The city underfoot

January 8, 2013

These photos of the urban patchwork underfoot remind me of Borges’ story of the perfect map: “the Map of the Empire, whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it…”

Details are magical.

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  1. Julie permalink
    January 10, 2013 1:16 pm

    LOVE THE BORGES QUOTE. And this is one of my favorite posts of yours :)

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