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From: West Virginia University Philological Papers | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Wegner, Hart L. | Copyright information

VENICE

When you fly into Venice, you arrive at a new airport named after the city's most famous son, Marco Polo, the thirteenth-century traveler. Then, as you cross the lagoon by motorboat to your hotel, you see Venice rising from the water, a mirage, Shangri La, Bali Hai, Paradise Imagined. The mirage-like nature of the city deceives the eye. It seems to be an artistic artifact with the gaudiness of a fishing lure adrift in the lagoon, as Rilke wrote in "Late Autumn in ...

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