I don't think that does what you think it does. Suppose 'map is implemented independently of 'apply, and that it takes this form:
(def map (f seq)
...
... (f elem) ...
...)
Then (map quote '(1 2 3)) should result in the list (elem elem elem). That's what my intuition says anyway, not that it's really useful behavior. :-p
Mapping [list quote _], as I was talking about when I called it ($lambda (x) (list $quote x)), will hopefully work regardless of what mapping quote does.