[W]e might hear of the declining profits of GM, or rising oil prices, or the latest pronouncements from Alan Greenspan (all of which are of less consequence to the long-term order of the universe than a gnat fart in a windstorm).

Not only are there maps of fantasy, such as those of Oz or Middle Earth, there are also hypotheses that have been made on the basis of mapped information

Once divination reveals the deviant and spells out the necessary rite of retribution, the deviant is able to delabel himself by performing this rite, which is also thought to remove the misfortune from the family.

Naipaul commits the very sin of which he misaccuses the Indian novelists: the form of his work entails the worth of human life, while the infused vision denies it.