tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151589473709505648.post7914667014537478977..comments2024-03-28T07:52:07.647-04:00Comments on venezia blog: A Death in the Grand Canal, Part 1Steven Varni, aka Sig. Nonlosohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10066672605318740533noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151589473709505648.post-58299995975361543682017-02-19T07:30:45.171-05:002017-02-19T07:30:45.171-05:00Thanks very much for reading it and taking the tim...Thanks very much for reading it and taking the time to comment. I think it's a very hard thing to write about, and one probably can't help but editorialize (as I do, too, of course). But there was something about the Anglo-American accounts that made me uneasy and seemed, I suppose, insincere or in bad faith: exploiting a story as click bait while feigning moral outrage. <br /><br />As for Venetian reactions to their visitors: I think so much of Venice seems like a minor variation on the universal mass tourist experience that a lot of visitors hardly distinguish it in any meaningful way from other "seaside" or at least watery destinations: it might as well be Cabo San Lucas, Mexico or Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Venetians themselves have often been complicit in this homogenization. And yet while plenty of Venetians show little respect for their home (you should see how they drive their boats in various fragile locations), they are deeply offended (perhaps hypocritically) when visitors don't give it the proper respect. Steven Varni, aka Sig. Nonlosohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10066672605318740533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151589473709505648.post-79301858227802477972017-02-03T04:47:09.710-05:002017-02-03T04:47:09.710-05:00Thank you so much for this account which is so val...Thank you so much for this account which is so valuable given the terrible coverage in the anglomedia. I am especially grateful for the information on the memorial service and the local reactions by Venetians to the antics of their visitors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com