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基礎被動語態

that was made in 1937 by the General Drafting Company.

程度副詞

It's an extremely famous map among cartography nerds,

because down here at the bottom of the Catskill Mountains,

actually, this will go easier if I just put it up here --

There's Roscoe, and then right above Roscoe is Rockland, New York,

and then right above that is the tiny town of Agloe, New York.

Agloe, New York, is very famous to cartographers,

Mapmakers -- because my map of New York and your map of New York

are going to look very similar, on account of the shape of New York --

often, mapmakers will insert fake places onto their maps,

Because then, if my fake place shows up on your map,

I can be well and truly sure that you have robbed me.

Agloe is a scrabblization of the initials of the two guys who made this map,

Decades later, Rand McNally releases a map

with Agloe, New York, on it, at the same exact intersection

of two dirt roads in the middle of nowhere.

Well, you can imagine the delight over at General Drafting.

They immediately call Rand McNally, and they say,

"We've caught you! We made Agloe, New York, up.

And Rand McNally says, "No, no, no, no, Agloe is real."

Because people kept going to that intersection of two dirt roads --

in the middle of nowhere, expecting there to be a place called Agloe --

someone built a place called Agloe, New York.

It had a gas station, a general store, two houses at its peak.

And this is of course a completely irresistible metaphor to a novelist,

because we would all like to believe that the stuff that we write down on paper

can change the actual world in which we're actually living,

which is why my third book is called "Paper Towns".

But what interests me ultimately more than the medium in which this happened,

It's easy enough to say that the world shapes our maps of the world, right?

Like the overall shape of the world is obviously going to affect our maps.

But what I find a lot more interesting is the way

that the manner in which we map the world changes the world.

Because the world would truly be a different place if North were down.

And the world would be a truly different place

if Alaska and Russia weren't on opposite sides of the map.

if we projected Europe to show it in its actual size.

The world is changed by our maps of the world.

The way that we choose -- sort of, our personal cartographic enterprise,

I believe that what we map changes the life we lead.

And I don't mean that in some, like, secret-y Oprah's Angels network, like,

you-can-think-your-way- out-of-cancer sense.

But I do believe that while maps don't show you where you will go in your life,

You very rarely go to a place that isn't on your personal map.

So I was a really terrible student when I was a kid.

And I think the reason that I was such a terrible student

is that I felt like education was just a series of hurdles

and I had to jump over in order to achieve adulthood.

And I didn't really want to jump over these hurdles,

because they seemed completely arbitrary, so I often wouldn't,

and then people would threaten me, you know,

they'd threaten me with this "going on [my] permanent record,"

As far as I could tell at eleven or twelve years old,

like, people with good jobs woke up very early in the morning,

and the men who had good jobs, one of the first things they did

was tie a strangulation item of clothing around their necks.

and then they went off to their jobs, whatever they were.

These people -- in my, symbol-obsessed, twelve year-old imagination --

these people who are strangling themselves

as one of the first things they do each morning,

Why would I want to jump over all of these hurdles

And then, when I was in tenth grade, I went to this school,

Indian Springs School, a small boarding school,

And I became a learner, because I found myself

who celebrated intellectualism and engagement,

and who thought that my ironic oh-so-cool disengagement

but, like, it was a simple and unspectacular response

to very complicated and compelling problems.