Thursday, December 19, 2019

“The world in our conceit of it”

William Hazlitt:

All that part of the map that we do not see before us is a blank. The world in our conceit of it is not much bigger than a nutshell.

“On Going a Journey,” in Table Talk (1822).
Cf. Saul Steinberg’s View of the World from 9th Avenue.

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