ATDTDA (1): Midway Plaisance - part 2

[Ya Sam]

>[...] But as places of recreation there were none that would compare with 
>the Midway plaisance, an epitome and also a supplement of the Fair, with 
>its bazaars of all nations, ...

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"I liked to visit the Midway Plaisance. It seemed like the "Arabian Nights," 
it was crammed so full of novelty and interest. Here was the India of my 
books in the curious bazaar with its Shivas and elephant-gods; there was the 
land of the Pyramids concentrated in a model Cairo with its mosques and its 
long processions of camels; yonder were the lagoons of Venice, where we 
sailed every evening when the city and the fountains were illuminated. I 
also went on board a Viking ship which lay a short distance from the little 
craft. I had been on a man-of-war before, in Boston, and it interested me to 
see, on this Viking ship, how the seaman was once all in all--how he sailed 
and took storm and calm alike with undaunted heart, and gave chase to 
whosoever reechoed his cry, "We are of the sea!" and fought with brains and 
sinews, self-reliant, self-sufficient, instead of being thrust into the 
background by unintelligent machinery, as Jack is to-day. So it always 
is--"man only is interesting to man."

>From 'Story of My Life' by Helen Keller

http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/biography/StoryofMyLife/chap16.html

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