On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:02:29 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>> >"...then (in the 50s) it was filled with dark little shops selling
>> >oil, wine and olives and formidable-looking corsets to peasant women
>> >with long black dresses. Donkeys were the main traffic. It was
>> >intensely Spanish. Now, it could be just about anywhere. The shops
>> >have that international chic I associate with boutiques in big
>> >international airports.
>>
>> Should peasant women have to continue to wear formidable corsets in
>> 40 degree weather, world without end, Amen, so that British traveller
>> writers can get some great photos? Or is this lament just fuel for a
>> sneer at those who never saw it all when it was worth seeing?
>
>He was saying neither of those things. I'm mildly surprised that you
>took that attitude towards it- it seemed like a perfectly fair article
>to me.
You certainly get the feeling that he mourns the passing of the
corsets and the black dresses. What on earth do they have to do with
the ruining of the Mediterranean? I can see where I live that some of
the quainter old types are the ones who are throwing plastic bags in
the ditches and burning trash, and it's skinny young women with their
belly buttons bared who are recycling.
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Barbara Vaughan
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