Living life like a 成都人 today…lounging and drinking tea all afternoon
…In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such
Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the
entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of
a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer
satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the
Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which
coincided point for point with it. The following Generations,
who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their
Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless,
and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered
it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts
of the West, still today, 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.
J. A. Suárez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV,
Cap. XLV, Lérida, 1658
[Jorge Luis Borges. A Universal History of Infamy (1935), in
Collected Fictions (New York: Viking Penguin, 1998), p. 325).
Translated by Andrew Hurley.]
(Source: wanderlustmind.com)
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Minnesota Zoo will end its dolphin exhibit via StarTribune
One of the Minnesota Zoo’s most popular species will no longer be on exhibit.
The two remaining dolphins are moving within a few months and will not be replaced, the zoo in Apple Valley announced Monday.
Zoo Director Lee Ehmke said Semo and Allie must be relocated because extensive repairs are needed to the 15-year-old Discovery Bay building and the dolphin tank, where the two are housed.
The refurbishment, combined with the species’ low availability, means there will be no dolphins at the Minnesota Zoo “in the foreseeable future,” Ehmke said.
Ehmke acknowledges that losing dolphins as an attraction will be disappointing to visitors. Except for a few brief interruptions, dolphins have been exhibited at the zoo since it opened in 1978.
“People love dolphins,” he said. “It has consistently been one of the favorite animals. They have a lot of charisma, and people find them fascinating and love them, as do we.”
我爱中国，我爱昆明！
Talk about detail! No room for mistakes in these pancakes! Nothing bad about this batter!
Usher ft. Rick Ross—“Lemme See”
