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For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found, elseways everyone would know where it was.

— Barbossa • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Painterly brass compass on a torn weathered sheet of paper against teal.
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The speaker reasons that a place which cannot be found must be reached by being lost. A clear route would contradict its secrecy. The paradox turns disorientation into a qualification for discovery, making the absence of reliable directions part of the destination's protection.

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