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Map of New Crobuzon, based on faction:
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Map of New Crobuzon based on place names:
Apart from resembling a schematic for a brain, it looks like London laid over Belgrade or Budapest.
Who knows, maybe he did base it on the idea of being a 'brain'. Good catch.
Scribble wrote: "Apart from resembling a schematic for a brain"That's EXACTLY what I thought when I saw the first pic!
Looking at the key to the various parts of the map, there doesn't seem to be any correlation between the parts and functions of the brain-area that I can make out. e.g. soldiers & masons in the frontal lobe? Bankers and unaligned in the cerebellum? Unaligned and balance maybe but that seems a stretch.
Robert wrote: "Looking at the key to the various parts of the map, there doesn't seem to be any correlation between the parts and functions of the brain-area that I can make out. e.g. soldiers & masons in the fro..."It would have been pretty meta if he'd put mathematicians and philosophers in the frontal lobe, hehe. Yeah, sadly he seems to have missed an opportunity there.
How cool it is to find that others found this resemblance to be striking. I wouldnt dismiss the idea that the placements indicated in first view have some thought put into what where. After all,it is not CMs brain,but the brain of New Cor....and of course, there is no zone for mathmeticians and philosophers (seems thats pretty universal)
Sages,now,get a little area and physicians...the greatest area being the merchants and the unsigned....
Yeah, although the brain has some pretty specific areas for certain things like sight and hearing, it tends to be pretty plastic regarding other aspects, making it a bit harder to pin specific functions to limited, isolated areas.Soldiers I would at first glance have maybe placed more in the hypothalamus or amygdala, but soldiers aren't regulated by emotion alone; -or if they are, they're not very effective. They're much more effective if they make use of strategy, which would draw from the frontal lobe.
Also, masons are builders, and builders need to draw up plans that make use of mathematical methods. So perhaps not so silly after all?
The place names are wonderfully and eloquently unappealling!
Cecily wrote: "The place names are wonderfully and eloquently unappealling!"CM does manage to, more often than not, be an almost complete antithesis of romance... :P
Antithesis of romance - yes, but far from unattractive, in his writings or in person. ;)
You might change your mind a bit when you read King Rat... I'm finding it mightily yucky so far... :P
