What can we say Taylor Swift? Black space. Space for the spacebar, space for deep space. Blank as a blank stare, blank as a blank round in a murder case.

The necessity to have a hole in the map to house your errant thoughts good people. It’s a different world to the one we grew up in, a world populated with subjects and sciences of all varieties. I was barely out of school and they were trying to fill my mind with psychobabble. My favourite an apt in this discussion is the “SO WHAT!” ball. So what I’m fat, so what I can’t sing an so forth as you give the ball to the next “attendee” aka psychiatric patient aka average example of a human being. A hole in the map is in fact a useful geopolitical or rather psychogeopolitical punch bag in the same way you might say so what. Hole in the map I got out of bed on the wrong side.

Point one: I was lucky enough to have a postmodern education in the songs of Taylor Swift who I discovered somewhere between the now defunct Google Plus, the still relavent Google Search, and the monster that is the Google owned YouTube and on the other side of the Darknet fence on the eponymous Bittorrent network otherwise known as The Pirate Bay. That was back in about 2014 when her delicious and deluctible album RED was hitting the airwaves – we are now lucky to have RED (Taylor’s Version) that sets the record straight. Thus I met in years to come with Taylor’s song Blank Space which unwittingly provided me with the voice I needed in relation to a hole in the map and any number of related ideas.

Point two. Chimanimani. Which is itself a local translation of the word “gap” or parting between two mountains. The Chimanimanis proved a rather less modern and more of an architypically military training in hiking and mountaineering as well as being a solid grounding in my continuing love of the great outdoors. It also provided a physical map in the form of Tucker’s Map of the Chimanimani Mountains. Which at vast expense is now happily online. That map is where the philosophy of a hole in the map and the need for a blank space found its origin. And helped us formalise what is now a thriving online presence.

Please refer to The Librarian’s Accounting Museum Version 1.0 available on Amazon for a more detailed review of Blank Space and a hole in the map.