“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.” – Ursula Le Guin from her beautiful novel A Wizard of Earthsea
‘Here be dragons’
Apparently this hoary old phrase first popped up on a globe made in the 1500s. Medieval map makers were inclined to put mythical beasts on maps to indicate unexplored or not fully explored territories that …
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