"Christopher Rowe - Another Word for Map is Faith" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rowe Christopher)

The unchurched all looked alike to Sandy, differing only in the details of their dress, modes of
transportation, and to what extent the curia allowed interaction with them. In the case of the little drivers,
for example, tacit permission was given for commercial exchange because of their ancient control of the
bus lines. But she'd never heard of marmotas, and said so.

"They're called тАШrootersтАЩ around here,тАЭ said Lucas. тАЬI don't know what Ford's on about. I've never heard
of them having a lake, but they've always come into the villages with their vegetables, so far as I know."

"Not always,тАЭ said Carmen. тАЬThere's nothing about any unchurched lineages in the glosses of the maps
we're working from. They're as new as that lake."

Sandy recognized that they were in an educable moment. тАЬEverybody come here, let's meet. Let's have a
class."

The students maneuvered themselves into the flatter ground within the horseshoe of instruments,
spreading blankets and pulling out notebooks and pens. Ford lay his bestiary out, a place marked about
a third of the way through with the bright yellow fan of a fallen gingko leaf.

"Carmen's brought up a good point,тАЭ said Sandy, after they'd opened with a prayer. тАЬThere's no
Cartographical record of these diggers, or whatever they're called, along the ridge line."

"I don't think it matters, necessarily, though,тАЭ said Carmen. тАЬThere's no record of the road up to the bus
stop, either, or of LucasтАЩ village. тАШTowns and roads are thin scrims, and outside our purview.тАЩтАЭ

Sandy recognized the quote as being from the autobiography of a radical cleric intermittently popular on
campus. It was far from writ, but not heretical by any stretch of the imagination and, besides, she'd had
her own enthusiasms for colorful doctrinal interpretations when she was younger. She was disappointed
that Carmen would let her tendency toward error show so plainly to the others but let it pass, confident
that one of the more conservative students would address it.

"Road building doesn't affect landscape?тАЭ asked Lucas, on cue. тАЬThe Mapmaker used road builders to
cut canyons all over the continent. Ford, maybe Carmen needs to see the cutlines on your contour maps
of the bus routes."

Before Ford, who was looking somewhat embarrassed by the exchange, could reply, Carmen said, тАЬI'm
not talking about the Mapmaker, Lucas, I'm talking about your family, back in the village we passed
yesterday."

"Easy, Carmen,тАЭ said Sandy. тАЬWe're getting off task here. The question at hand isn't whether there's
error. The error is clear. We can feel the moisture of it on the breeze blowing up the hill right now.тАЭ Time
to shift directions on them, to turn them on the right path before they could think about it.

"The question,тАЭ she continued, тАЬis how much of it we plan to correct.тАЭ Not whether they'd correct, don't
leave that option for them. The debate she'd let them have was over the degree of action they'd take, not
whether they'd take any at all.

The more sophisticated among themтАФFord and Carmen sure, but even Lucas, to his creditтАФinstantly
saw her tack and looked at her with eyebrows raised. Then Lucas reverted to type and actually dared to
say something.