This entry makes me sad :( I haven't been back to the city forever but it's always going to be the home of my heart.
I don't think yearning for the authentic is a bourgeois pretense, it's a natural instinct for people to want things to be true, and above all, to be real --- or at least what they remember as real. Perhaps authentic in this case just means the stuff that one's nostalgia is based on.
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Date: 2008-04-01 06:15 pm (UTC)I don't think yearning for the authentic is a bourgeois pretense, it's a natural instinct for people to want things to be true, and above all, to be real --- or at least what they remember as real. Perhaps authentic in this case just means the stuff that one's nostalgia is based on.