The List #56: Beautiful and Doomed
Love in a time of collapse
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He was among the most brilliant men in the most glorious city the world had ever seen. Centuries of culture at his fingertips, a world to command. Only the city was going mad.
Like Germany at the beginning of the 20th century—or America, maybe, at its end—Rome in the 1st century B.C. was a place of incomparable affluence and sophistication that had begun to stumble horrifyingly toward civilizational suicide. The question facing any artist in the eye of that storm is the one our artists grapple with today: what kind of beauty is possible in an age of decadence?
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