The ‚Carte du tendre,‘ or fans‘ chart, eighteenth century

“Zoe discovered your during sex with Sue. Very she kept your, and got your dog, and then their sister’s sick, very he’s having problems navigating what.”

This snippet of conversation, overheard in a Greenwich Village cafe, employs navigation—the art and research to find one’s method around spatially—as a metaphor (and a cliched any at that) for determining your psycho-sexual lives.Continue reading→