Themes · 2010
Nothing excited me more than opening up the atlas and seeing places and seas, imagining what they looked like and what kind of life the people had.
— Lewis Gordon Pugh · Achieving the Impossible
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Opening an atlas offers more than a view of borders and water. It starts the speaker imagining distant places and the lives of people there. The excitement lies in that movement from marks on a page to worlds that the reader wants to picture.
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