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| | Eco - Papers: "Maps, Mazes and Monsters" by Adele Haft |
 | | This church maze is the acknowledged model for Eco's library with its essentially square shape, its four corners or towers possessing five exterior sides or walls, its octagonal center, and the presence of a single internal wall that prevents one from completely circumambulating the labyrinth (10). |
 | | To the south of Africa lay part of the circumfluent ocean, thought to lie in the equatorial zone and to be unnavigable because of its vast expanse, its treacherous waters, or the sun's unbearable heat (52). |
 | | The Rheims Cathedral Maze (thirteenth century), illustrated on p.95 of Mazes and Labyrinths of the World by Janet Bord, E.P. Dutton and Sobel Weber Associates, 1975; Bord's diagram is a sketch of an illustration in the Bibliothéque Nationale, Parigi, MS français 9152: folio 77. |
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