Atlantis. Camelot. Lemuria. El Dorado. Kitezh.
What is the appeal of a lost city? There must be an appeal, the amount of thought and dreaming we've put into the Atlantises, Alexandrias, Babylons... Yes, they all have become mythic heavens-on-earth. Yes, each has an aspect of Star Wars-ian "Long-ago-but-somehow-in-the-future" trope.
I think we're more excited because for once, in these lost cities, we escape the process of urban renewal. There can be no porosity - no unfinished projects, no abandoned dreams, no future hopes, no lost monuments, no decaying ruins, no bad paint jobs or plasterwork. There is just holy stagnation, frozen perfection.
There is a utopia. By which I mean a total and absolute war on time itself.
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Image: N. Roerich, "The Fall of Atlantis" 1929
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