I don’t know what it is with Mark Twain, but this’ll be my third post mentioning him. The previous posts are Critiques: Consider the Source and Fortifications of Paris. This time I wanted to highlight a “map” that he has published in his autobiography. It’s actually more of a diagram, and indeed, he has titled it as “Diagram of London” but being that it still has a spatial (though not to-scale) component, it still has a bit of relevance to the blog.
Mark Twain’s autobiography can be found (in full, I believe) on Google Docs. Here’s the diagram I am referring to:
And here is what he says about it:
One little wee bunch of houses in London, one little wee spot, is the centre of the globe, the heart of the globe, and the machinery that moves the world is located there. It is called the City, and it, with a patch of its borderland, is a city. But the rest of London is not a city. It is fifty villages massed solidly together over a vast stretch of territory. Each village has its own name and its own government.
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