Paper Space - edit

[dukealien]

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It’s more important
to have a map
than that it correspond exactly
with terrain you travel.

Likewise a calendar:
it needn’t match
your present month, just show
succeeding days to live.

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Thanks to both critics.  I hope this revision (which went a bit further than expected) aids understanding - if not agreement - while aligning with the general theme of simplification and something like explanation.

I think I first encountered the idea that having a map is better than no map, even if it's not an accurate one in Robert Pirsig's "Lila," where it comes up with what he called the Cleveland Harbor Problem.  He was sailing his yacht ("Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" set him up pretty well) along the south shore of the Great Lakes and meant to put in at Cleveland Harbor.  It being hazy and he not an expert navigator, he followed the map of Cleveland Harbor up to a dock (grouchy on account of inaccuracies) where he found he hadn't reached Cleveland Harbor at all.  But it was a dock, and a perfectly good resting place.

From this reflections on morality ensued.  The calendar bit is mine, one of those things that just pop into your head.