{"id":348,"date":"2023-05-18T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T08:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rogergaessphoto.com\/?page_id=348"},"modified":"2023-05-18T09:12:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T08:12:34","slug":"venice-fatale-text","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rogergaessphoto.com\/?page_id=348","title":{"rendered":"Venice Fatale text"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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For the tourist hordes, Venice is the city of breathtaking canals and magnificent churches.\u00a0 For some others, the place offers a fateful attraction, not unlike a game of chance, or a tempting of fate itself.\u00a0\u00a0This might not be a conscious choice or even a course of one’s choosing.\u00a0\u00a0Another hand might be at play, in need of a pawn.\u00a0\u00a0Whatever the source, whether choice or chance, it can take you in little by little, or all at once, depending on who you are and how far you think you’re willing to go, and then you might become led.\u00a0<\/p>

It could begin with Venice’s eerie sensuality of decay.\u00a0 Or the labyrinthine layout of canals and narrow, winding streets and bridges that somehow all end up looking the same, leaving you caught in a maze and at the mercy of a stranger’s help.\u00a0 Even with foresight enough to have packed a seemingly adequate map, it’s hard to escape an ebbing confidence in your own judgment, or a burgeoning sense of feeble anonymity.<\/p>

You know a bit of the history: the successive bubonic plagues \u2026 the Council of Ten, its culture of surveillance and denunciations, secret trials and executions, the ducal prisons \u2026 and that cursed house down on the Grand Canal.\u00a0<\/p>

Maybe you\u2019ve read Thomas Mann\u2019s\u00a0Death in Venice<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0You don\u2019t need to be the literary type \u2013 the movie version will do.\u00a0\u00a0And then there\u2019s Du Maurier\u2019s\u00a0Don\u2019t Look Now<\/em>\u00a0and McEwan\u2019s\u00a0Comfort of Strangers<\/em>, both having gone from fiction to film as well.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019d bet you\u2019ve come upon at least one of these and it\u2019d given you the chills and you enjoyed it.\u00a0\u00a0Taking\u00a0chances, taking risks can be fun, you think, and if you have some time on your hands, why not welcome them, if only for a while?<\/p>

So relax.\u00a0\u00a0Take in a jazz set to loosen up.\u00a0\u00a0Then drop some of that change that’s weighing you down, the casino is good for that.\u00a0\u00a0It’s all part of the ride.\u00a0\u00a0And if not Florian\u2019s get on to Harry\u2019s or wherever, a drink emptied without hesitation and another ordered, maybe an exchange of winks and a nod along the way; or just a walk through the night to see where your mood takes you.\u00a0\u00a0You only live once, before you sleep for the night, whether with an alluring stranger or alone.<\/p>

Still, at what point could it all go too far?\u00a0 At what moment might this odd pleasure get you in over your head, leaving you your own worst enemy?<\/p>

Boredom, impatience, fear, loneliness.\u00a0\u00a0Like the physical, these can induce and blur, confounding the harmless and the sinister.\u00a0\u00a0Some of the Carnival masks in shop windows are disquieting.\u00a0 You wonder what that solemn-faced gondolier really had in mind for his passengers.\u00a0<\/p>

Are you being followed?\u00a0 The broad, vacant street you are walking along narrows and up ahead you’ll have to turn sharply onto a dim corridor.\u00a0 People can be unlucky.\u00a0 It excites you, yes, it’s a little adventure, while in the back of your mind is a nagging suggestion of impending misfortune, and your own worst fear.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venice Fatale [Photos] For the tourist hordes, Venice is the city of breathtaking canals and magnificent churches.\u00a0 For some others, the place offers a fateful attraction, not unlike a game of chance, or a tempting of fate itself.\u00a0\u00a0This might not be a conscious choice or even a course of one’s choosing.\u00a0\u00a0Another hand might be at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-348","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rogergaessphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rogergaessphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rogergaessphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rogergaessphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rogergaessphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rogergaessphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/rogergaessphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rogergaessphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}