The Virtues of Fine in the Age of Awesome

An excellent article on the competitive sport that travel has become made me long for the simple pleasures of a trip to the Harmony.

“We now live in a world of capitalized extremities: the Ultimate Experience now poses a threat to the kind of small revelations that can make us happy. Travelers, by which I mean people who want simply to find a lovely part of the world and dwell in it for a week or two, first have to work out how to avoid all the hype about Experience. And here’s my message. You don’t have to plunge Starship Enterprise-like toward the inner environs of Pluto or scrape the ocean floor to encounter a revelation: you can get one if you stand on your own two feet at Basilica di San Marco in Venice and look up at the cathedral’s stonework, noticing how the carving seems to fizz and “foam,” as Ruskin said. It’s a small, private delight to see that for yourself.”—Andrew O’Hagan, T Magazine

Or you can head to the Harmony where there are no televisions, radios or alarm clocks…but nice waves and dreamy Guiones sunsets like the one above.

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