Queen's Quarterly, September 22nd, 2006
THIS is Venice. "Help! The population is shrinking!" It is full of French writers, though. Only 70,000 residents now live in the "historic centre." And historic it is. It is a challenge to find a cinema or a grocery store here; all the rest is canned. Perhaps some inhabitants fled, fearing that they might be sealed inside. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What is there in Venice? Tourists. Despicable, camera-laden tourists! Propped up in buses like marble statues! But, although I am a writer, a tourist I remain. Hatred of tourists is sometimes just an accepted form of xenophobia. The tourists flock...
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