"...The real mythologizing which occurs here is in the invention of a point of view, a panoramic eye before whose gaze the historical facts unfold...What is evoked here are the spatial forms and fantasies through which a culture declares its presence.  It is spatiality as a form of non-linear writing; as a form of history.  That cultural space has such a history is evident from the historical documents themselves.  For the literature of spatial history -- the letters home, the explorers' journals, the unfinished maps -- are written traces which, but for their spatial occasion, would not have come into being.  They are not like novels: their narratives do not conform to the rules of cause-and-effect empirical history. Rather, they are analogous to unfinished maps and should be read accordingly as records of travelling...it is their open-endedness, their lack of finish, even their search for words, which is characteristic: for it is here, where forms and conventions break down, that we can discern the process of transforming space into place..."

from The Road to Botany Bay: An Essay in Spatial History by Paul Carter

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