A DISCOURSE ON MAP PINS

In a time when men were men and mapmakers were men too, the humble map-pin unselfishly went about its business of symbolising history's epic moments. Newly explored lands, for example, were celebrated by most not by reverence of the vista itself but by the minute trophies gleaming forthright on a virgin spread of map paper. 
In this discourse on map pins and pinnage we avert our lascivious gaze from the metaphorical pin-up girl and focus instead our refined eyes toward the edge of the poster and we notice there; the most pragmatic of mapping saints... the pin
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