What those of us with more freedom of movement may ignore all our lives: that the world is populated not only by biological, political, and geographic features, but by imagination and speculation, and that it is impossible to know any place entirely, but that there are ways of approximating our knowledge of a place that moves beyond the facts of typography, longitude, latitude, or demographics.
Judith Schalansky, cited in Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 