ATDTDA (1): Midway Plaisance - part 1

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And I just can't help but flashing on how that must have 
looked from above, on the gondola of the Inconvenience. 
I'm visualizing a bomb crater in white.

"Observers of the Fair had remarked how, as one moved up 
and down its Midway, the more European, civilized, and ... 
well, frankly, white exhibits located closer to the center of 
the 'White City' seemed to be, whereas the farther from 
that alabaster Metropolis one ventured, the more evident 
grew the signs of cultural darkness and savagery" (p. 22).