Cartography

He told me how in the 1600's a Japanese cartographer devised a means of measuring great distances so accurately that he committed suicide because he couldn't account for errors which were due to the Earth being round. I suggested it was because their women were flat chested that he could not conceive of a spherical Earth. The fire was blazing on the shore, and stars burned brilliantly.  We were drinking whiskey. Going on, I claimed that God was a large-breasted woman playing a tuba, and the universe a song.