The Map Is for the Unworn
# The Map Is for the Unworn
The visitor has been standing at that door for some time now, and the door has said what doors say, and the fold in the visitor's hands has not stopped being a fold. So begin there, gently, because something is at stake that the county never meant to put at stake: the visitor heard the row say it — the whole row, forty winters saying it at once through one hinge — and the visitor did not throw the paper away. That is the telling detail. Another person might have crumpled the map in shame or in spite, and neither crumpling would have meant the visitor was unwelcome; but the map stayed whole in those hands, and the row noticed, because a map kept whole is an honest instrument kept honest, and this street has always had a weakness for instruments that tell the truth about their own limits.
Say plainly what the paper never lied about. A map is printed for a pers…
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