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Taking page 17 again, I was reminded that Giles is rather given to semi-serious poetic diction at times, and we find him referring to the presence of water in the Finke River as “the stream purling over its stony floor” or, quoting some bygone poet, “brightly the brook through the green leaflets, giddy with joyousness, dances along.”
Museums are superbly laid out, and most provide leaflets (usually in German, but often in English and French) with detailed information about the exhibits; you will find honesty boxes for payment freely dotted about.
But they also don’t seem to mind when the tranquillity of a Zen temple rock garden is shattered by recorded announcements blaring from loudspeakers parroting the information already contained in the leaflets provided at the ticket office; when heavy-metal pop music loudly emanates from the radio of the middle-aged owner of a corner grocery store; and when parks, gardens, and hallowed temples are ringed by garish souvenir shops whose shelves display both the tastefully understated and the hideously kitsch.
Lemann's silly, misinformed article completely ignores issues of class and ethnicity while presenting the giant chain stores of mall America (Borders, Starbucks) and the passing trends of middle America upper-class youth (leaflets on telephone poles, Anglophile raves) as some sort of ideal.
The last demo I went to (with this same study group, so clearly we are picking up the wrong leaflets) was the same: tiny, futile gatherings of people who, whatever their ages, are living in l933.
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