In one of Jorge Luis Borges’s fables, an ancient empire becomes so fixated on the science of carto-graphy that eventually the only map that will suffice is one whose size matches that of the realm itself. “The vast map was useless,” Borges writes, laconically. In its drive to capture reality, even to beat it, the empire loses all sense of it.
在豪爾赫?路易斯?博爾赫斯(Jorge Luis Borges)筆下的一則寓言中，一個古國極為執(zhí)迷制圖術，以至于最后能令它滿意的，只有一幅尺寸與王國同樣大小的地圖。“龐大的地圖沒有用處，”博爾赫斯言簡意賅地寫道。在捕捉真實乃至超越真實的過程中，帝國失去了對真實的所有認識。
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