#where lies the strangling fruit

Annihilation:The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

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Moby Dick: It is not down on any map; true places never are.

“I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into thinking that words should be read.”

// Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer

// Altered image of a back gate on my walk this afternoon