CQ2 | Ed Murphy

Beautiful, obsessive, map of the thoughtful world, by James Turner, mixing place and ideas and emotion and so much else. And it’s hilarious. To the north is goodness; wisdom to the west, reason to the east. Utopia, a small atoll, is between them (capital: Aircastle). To the south is Hedonism and Abomination. At the center of the world, you have Constantinople, Hollywood, Xi’an, the Hearst Ranch, and Olympus in the Pride district, next to the Gulf of Arrogance.

Across the Strait of Nationalism, lies Elysium (major cities: Verdun, Arras, Basra, Minsk, and Lvov), bordered by the regions of Cruelty, Tyranny, and Destruction. Sadism and Torture are districts of Destruction; Van Dieman’s Land is in between Sadism and Vengeance.

To the west, across the Strait of Kinsey (!), is the land of Hedonism. Major cities include Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, Amsterdam, and Los Angeles. Abandonment lies just off-shore, Madagascar-like. To the south are the districts of Lies (capital: Watergate), Delusion, Gluttony (Graceland, City of McDonalds, and Fattiburg), with the Gulag Archipeligo to the southmost.

I suspect the hand of Finbar in all this: to the northeast, in the Sea of the Short-Sighted, by the Island of Magical Thought, lies Cork City all by its lonesome at about 50′N, 115′E.

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