If you look at the map, you'll see it is in the shape of a margin — it has no center. It's a frame, actually. As I look around the margin of this map, I see a ranch, a place called the sulphur pond: falls, and a water tank; the word pumice. But it's all very elusive. If you are flying over a piece, you can see its whole configuration in a sense contracted down to a photographic scale. There are people in Scotland who claim that after being photographed they get sick. Also there is a tribe somewhere that believes cameras blight the landscape. After all the camera is a mechanism — a Cartesian eye. Pictographs are painted on the rock; petroglyphs are carved in the rock. In some places you find only petroglyphs, in other places only pictographs, in some places both. The pictures... are found on flat surfaces along the canyon walls, often at heights now inaccessible to a man on foot. (Because of erosion.) They are functional rather than horizontal. They usually appear in crowded clusters, with figures of a later date sometimes superimposed on those of an earlier time. Abysmal deposits. Accidents to rivers. Fossilized venom. Adjutant birds. Arctic ids. Block Mountains. Poets celebrating grottoes. Bottom-set beds. Brittle stars. Data from drilled holes. Capture of rivers. Consanguinity of rocks. Derivative rocks. Measurements made behind stationary stores. Downthrow. Dry mines. Snapshots of poison gas. Dykes. Fault scarps. Foreset beds. Things fail to appear. Giant granite. Giant kettles. The world through the eyes of a Devonian lung fish. Hade of fault. Heavy spar. Hog backs. A bat of obsidian. Infusorial
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