Aribeth says: The worlds of many literary works have been subject to similar changes in perception. There is a whole genre of literary maps dedicated to tracing the real-world settings of fictional events, or the location of events once thought to have been real but now recognized as fiction. Do these maps count? Depends on what you mean by "counting". All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Oscar Wilde Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. Woody Allen Woody Allen has a point. My city has turned into a soap opera. J.R.R.Tolkien had Middle earth mapped with associated cultures, and languages. The book became a film, and there will always be debate regarding portrayals that were once the province of individual imaginations. There is what the Author sees when they write, and each new reader has a unique view with threads that can be linked to other views, including the authors' through the work. We can use fantasy maps to consider the hypothetical and allow ideas to be approached from another angle. Ranging from tic tac toe, draughts, and chess, To 'dungeons and dragons' war games, and interactive video games The 'Map' can be a stable element upon which all of the rules can depend and provide a unifying ... |
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