[staplung]

Or a portion of one of it's inspirations: Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

  "We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!"

  "Have you used it much?" I enquired.

  "It has never been spread out, yet," said Mein Herr: "the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight ! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well."

[defrost]

Also Carroll, from The Hunting of the Snark

    He had bought a large map representing the sea,

    Without the least vestige of land

    And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be

    A map they could all understand.


    “What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?”
    
    So the Bellman would cry

    and the crew would reply

    “They are merely conventional signs!


    “Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes!

    But we’ve got our brave Captain to thank

    (So the crew would protest) that he’s bought us the best

    A perfect and absolute blank!”