tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132273.post356725327037065958..comments2023-05-01T11:44:04.490-03:00Comments on D for Disorientation: Flaneurs benvinguts!Pablohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296074005654785159noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132273.post-51865052694664493712007-08-16T16:53:00.000-03:002007-08-16T16:53:00.000-03:00You flâner! Kinda sounds vaguely sexual if you do...You <I>flâner</I>! Kinda sounds vaguely sexual if you don’t understand French (c.f. <I>voyeur</I>). Either that or some kind of culinary occupation.<BR/><BR/>I always feel self-conscious about taking pictures while I’m a tourist in a big city, especially when there are lots of people around. And I generally don’t like people in my architectural shots either.<BR/><BR/>In a sense, I think I’d rather be part of the experience (as a tourist) rather than an observer. However, I can see that if you are a local then you already are part of the scenery and are photographing it from a different perspective. It’s also difficult if you’re with someone else (who’s not a photographer).<BR/><BR/>I was passing a bookstore in my BsAs neighborhood a couple of weeks ago and there was a notice in the window complaining about the price of paper, and how book prices were going to increase dramatically. It’s also disheartening to see the incredible prices for imported books. Is there a tax on imported books, or is this just another example of price gouging?<BR/><BR/>I went to the BsAs Book Fair a couple of years ago, and it featured the same kind of commercial crap that you described in Rosario. Most of the exhibitors had nothing more than you could obtain at the bookstores downtown. The only interesting books seemed to be in the small booths of some foreign publishers.<BR/><BR/><I>Nothing to go especially there for (is that a weird sentence or not?).</I><BR/><BR/>I think it’s the placement of the adverb “especially” (interrupting “go there for”). You could move it to the end of the sentence - <I>Nothing to go there for especially</I>, which seems better in an informal register.<BR/><BR/>JohnSFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846379168854781828noreply@blogger.com