The trouble with Venice
September 10th 2009 The difficulty in writing anything about Venice, even just writing for myself, is that it has all been done before. Or as Mary McCarthy put it, "There is nothing to say about Venice that has not been said before (including this sentence)" or something just like that. After reading that (and some Henry James--I recommend The Aspern Papers which I am enjoying immensely), I was rendered
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