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...the tourist venice is venice.
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...the Tourist Venice Is Venice.

Mary McCarthy
...the tourist venice is venice.
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Exploration belongs to the renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.the explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.if the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. it is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.
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But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. they are too poor. they are too poor to go anywhere. they are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.
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Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.
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Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. tourist, rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.
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I think the work is the same in indie films or blockbuster. it's just a difference when you do all the publicity. it's like another job. i remember the first time i did the dreamers. i went to venice; quite a good amount of publicity, a lot of round-tables and tv. i was just not expecting that. i thought i was going to visit venice, but actually no.
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