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The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about venice. the watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.

-Mary McCarthy

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The Rationalist Mind Has Always Had Its

Mary McCarthy

The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about venice. the watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.

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If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair; when therefore thy doubts shall exercise thy faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts; so shall thy faith be secured from doubts; so shall thy doubts be preserved from despair.

I have just been to a city in the west, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. the whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. but, i don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. it would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. and for this i thank god; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

It is not surprising that venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. city of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. you are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

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