"I don't subscribe to the élitist, back-pack reductive declination that I am a traveller, you are a tourist, they are trippers. We are all visitors. And places like the Colosseum and the Taj Mahal were never meant to be seen in solitary purdah; they were made for crowds. But the crowds they were made for were expectant, festive, votive masses who
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