In one of Jorge Luis Borges’s fables, an ancient empire becomes so fixated on the science of cartography 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.
在豪尔赫•路易斯•博尔赫斯(Jorge Luis Borges)笔下的一则寓言中，一个古国极为执迷制图术，以至于最后能令它满意的，只有一幅尺寸与王国同样大小的地图。“庞大的地图没有用处，”博尔赫斯言简意赅地写道。在捕捉真实乃至超越真实的过程中，帝国失去了对真实的所有认识。
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