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Thursday, May 19, 2005

 

Allo! I should talk poems, I know, but I am in the midst of a cartographical mystery. I have a lovely pop-up map of the Manhattan transit system which has been quite helpful whenever I must trek from the few parts of the borough I know well to other, dimmer locales.

So I was looking at this thing the other day, perusing it, and I noticed that the underside of the laminated cardboard backing from which the map pops out is engraved with a statement from the founder of the Baha'i faith!

Mysterious Baha'i crypto-cartography!

And look, they even have it on their website. No attribution, though, so I wonder if they either don't know that their map-selling slogan is the work of an obscure religious figure or if they're just being sneaky about it.

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