Outing . THE GONDOLIER OF VENICE BY VANCE THOMPSON PHOTOGRAPHS BY GRIBAYEDOFF. HAD come over theAlps—out of graystorms—into Venice. Ihad not come to see thisVenice, which is not acity, but a that belongs to an-One should be purposeless other mood as a butterfly in order to appreciate thecharm of Venice—the grace of dead thingsand the living marvel of the sea. Oneshould have no will of his own, drifting, hecares not whither, past houses of gold andonyx and oriental alabaster—the loot ofDamascus and Heliopolis—over the brown-barred, silver lagoons, seaward. I hadcome to see Giusepp
Outing . THE GONDOLIER OF VENICE BY VANCE THOMPSON PHOTOGRAPHS BY GRIBAYEDOFF. HAD come over theAlps—out of graystorms—into Venice. Ihad not come to see thisVenice, which is not acity, but a that belongs to an-One should be purposeless other mood as a butterfly in order to appreciate thecharm of Venice—the grace of dead thingsand the living marvel of the sea. Oneshould have no will of his own, drifting, hecares not whither, past houses of gold andonyx and oriental alabaster—the loot ofDamascus and Heliopolis—over the brown-barred, silver lagoons, seaward. I hadcome to see Giuseppe Penso, gondolier,number 283, a Castellano of the Traghettoof San Barnaba—to shake his hand andlive for a few days his life and the life ofthe men of his craft, to eat and game withthem and play at bowls, to stand with themat the cradle and go with them across theDead Lagoon, on the last silent things I saw not at all. A cosmo-politan world thronged the piazzetta, stareddown en by the bronze horses of Byzan- Copyrighted, 1908, by The Outing Publis
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