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The limp charade of Cambridge in the 2020s

From The City of Today is a Dying Thing, by Des Fitzgerald loc 3321

Here, it seemed, was Cambridge in miniature: on the surface, an ersatz recreation of classical antiquity, timeless, traditional, sedately unmoving; but hiding in plain sight was the only thing making this limp charade even half possible in the twenty-first century, viz. the city’s real existence as an eager catalyst and shiny death-node of high-tech bioscience, rich people’s bodily anxieties, and venture capitalism.

I do love that city but totally accept his point here. In fact my list from 2021 of things I will miss, things I won’t miss about Cambridge revolved around exactly the point he’s making here.

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