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...consume literature. Writers have become obsessed with the city, not simply as a setting for their narratives or to detail its wonders, but because they can use the city as a metaphor for issues of humanity, the arts, the past. These authors have not allowed the cheery, glossed-over tourist vision to take hold, but have always seen a darker side of the city: a once powerful trade and cultural capital transformed into a sinking, aesthetic skeleton. For Balzac, it was the perfect frame for a Prince with only a title and no wealth; for Mann, it allowed...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Façade | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...while we often aim to visit other places through literature, it seems that, in this case, words and phrases might actually give us a truer experience of the city—allow us to move past the superficiality of the average tourist experience without, as James said, ever visiting...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Façade | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...maybe it is unrealistic to try and separate the tourists from the city, to try and say that the hustling and bustling, the sites, the souvenirs, are somehow a façade for a sadder and darker place. Perhaps along with gondolas and bridges, the city should be thought of as a place where, as you dine along the Grand Canal between the mainland and Giudecca, you should expect small cities to float by you: cruiseships so enormous that they form a shadow over the island as the passengers onboard wave down to you. Perhaps you should expect that...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Façade | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...meetings. The bigger parties ignore such old-fashioned techniques at their peril, says Eric Pickles, chairman of Britain's Conservative Party. "You've got a kind of [mainstream politician] representing those estates who didn't grow up on them, doesn't know them well and visits like a political tourist." Mainstream parties have "got to re-engage the population," he says. "You can't write the people off who voted BNP as all being Nazis. It's neglect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The March to the Far Right | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

That’s the problem with being a visitor, a tourist essentially. Observe all you want, but you might never understand. The fuzzy earmuffs are here to stay—but you?...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth | Title: Fleeing the Fuzzy Earmuffs | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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