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truepennyIt's weird how it happens, how sometimes you read something and your internal radar goes ping! and you know it's something you needed, even though it had never been in your head before--except that it had, only not fit together properly.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden did it for me this morning, with the following line:
Anyway, it seems to me that maze or labyrinth, rather than territory, is the proper antonym for map.
I don't believe I mentioned that The Project is very heavily invested in labyrinths. But it is. Insofar as there's anything resembling a thematic governor for the four books, it's the trope of the labyrinth. Which means that I collect quotes about labyrinths like a magpie collecting shiny things, so it's no surprise that this TNH quote pleased me. The kicker is that one of my two main characters becomes, over the course of the four books, fascinated with maps. I've got bits already written about that, in both vol. 1 and vol. 4. And now I know why. Because map is the antonym of labyrinth. I cannot even begin to explain how much sense this makes to me.
And now I've got something for him to be doing in the dry patches of vol. 2.
Ping.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden did it for me this morning, with the following line:
Anyway, it seems to me that maze or labyrinth, rather than territory, is the proper antonym for map.
I don't believe I mentioned that The Project is very heavily invested in labyrinths. But it is. Insofar as there's anything resembling a thematic governor for the four books, it's the trope of the labyrinth. Which means that I collect quotes about labyrinths like a magpie collecting shiny things, so it's no surprise that this TNH quote pleased me. The kicker is that one of my two main characters becomes, over the course of the four books, fascinated with maps. I've got bits already written about that, in both vol. 1 and vol. 4. And now I know why. Because map is the antonym of labyrinth. I cannot even begin to explain how much sense this makes to me.
And now I've got something for him to be doing in the dry patches of vol. 2.
Ping.
