Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. (Gilles Deleuze)

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

Gilles Deleuze

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