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Where I'd Like to Go
My sibling told me recently that out of everyone in our family, I am the one who seems to enjoy travel most.
This observation surprised me since I actually have a very hard time separating from my rigid routines and getting organized. Spontaneity doesn't fit me very well.
In some ways I'm still recovering from my brief Canada sojourn of a week ago, and that hardly speaks to my adventuring spirit, though I do enjoy the exotic and will travel some distance to encounter natural curiosities.
But what really claims my wanderlust is a yen for something like time travel tourism. Certain moments have fixed themselves in my mind. What must it have been like in decadent pre-war Berlin, or Henry James's Manhattan, London under Elizabeth I, the Galapagos Islands when they were first "discovered"? I'm also not above wanting to travel to places I've only imagined because of rumor. Many years ago I managed a trip to Lisbon, inspired primarily because it is the place in the movie Casablanca where everyone is desperate to go (and then only because they can escape to the Americas). The White City fulfilled its promise. I'm dying to go back to Lisbon for non-cinematic reasons now.
I just saw a picture that reminded me of another time-place longing of mine: Vienna in the late 19 th century. No one has much to say about Vienna now, but something about the combination of coffee and Freud, marvelous storytellers and some decadence again prods my interests. So the movie is The Illusionist, based on a story I haven't read, and I won't say much more than if you have a mind to be amused by magic tricks, strategy games, romance of various sorts, and a fascination for old Vienna, you could do much worse, especially when the current moment in time is rather lacking.
posted by Elise at 10:41 AM
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