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Excavating the disenchanted city By Hari Kunzru I t’s not so much where to begin as when, though in London the dis- tinction between time and space broke down centuries ago. There’s a cast of wanderers, visionaries, and itinerants, the self- educated and self- published, a long lineage of cranks and outcasts, mostly penurious, al- ways opinionated, stretching away into the mists of pseudohistory. If you go back far enough you end up right at the beginning, with King Brutus, great- grandson of Aeneas, defeating a clan of giants and founding a settle- ment he named New Troy. …
摘自《哈泼斯杂志》(Harper's Magazine)第2109期 · 2026年2月刊,Hari Kunzru。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。