Subject: Re: Campione d&#39;Italia borderwalk<br/>
Date: Feb 25, 2002 @ 20:13<br/>
Author: shocktm (&quot;shocktm&quot; &lt;andrew@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2131989013">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Arif Samad &lt;fHoiberg@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I am also interested in Tintin and thus like the<br/>
&gt; picture.  The Tintin books involve lots of border<br/>
&gt; crossings and maps are quite important in the books<br/>
&gt; and show up in a few stories.  <br/>
&gt; Is there anybody else who looks at the maps in a story<br/>
&gt; (Treasure Island, The Hobbit), comics (Tintin,<br/>
&gt; Asterix) or movies?  Do you wonder whether it is a<br/>
&gt; fake or real map?  Has anybody seen a website for<br/>
&gt; fantastic maps?  And by the way, does anybody know if<br/>
&gt; the map in the International Settlement in Tintin<br/>
&gt; story &quot;Blue Lotus&quot; is correctly drawn or not?<br/>
&gt; Arif<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>With the story &quot;The Blue Lotus&quot;, Herge began to write his stories <br/>
with emphisis on details. For example the advertising shown in the <br/>
background in the &quot;The Blue Lotus&quot; is correct Chineses. In later <br/>
stories he has correct Arabic and Bali swearing. So I would assume <br/>
the map is correct but may be simplified as the audience for the book <br/>
is children.<br/>
<br/>
-Andrew<br/>
<br/>
PS I took some pictures of Tintin stuff in Brussles see <br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.andrewpatton.com/tintin.shtml">http://www.andrewpatton.com/tintin.shtml</a></div>