Today I'm trying to geolocate a fictional place from Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rainforest for a paper/mapping project. This is understandably difficult, but careful reading and some fiddling revealed that it was supposed to be 1,500 miles from both Fortaleza and São Paulo, somewhere in the southern portion of the Amazon Basin. Taking Yamashita literally, I was able to drop it about there. If this seems like kind of a crazy way to spend one's time, you've probably got it about right. But they hand out degrees in it, so.