{"id":87002,"date":"2015-06-24T15:46:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=87002"},"modified":"2015-06-24T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T19:46:52","slug":"true-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/true-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"True Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_87007\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/duane_hanson_tourists_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87007\" class=\"wp-image-87007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/duane_hanson_tourists_2.jpg\" alt=\"duane_hanson_tourists_2\" width=\"600\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/duane_hanson_tourists_2.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/duane_hanson_tourists_2-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-87007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duane Hanson, <i>Tourists II<\/i>, 1988, fiberglass and mixed media, with accessories. Image via Saatchi Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On those occasions when I\u2019ve taught, I\u2019ve been struck by something: my students don\u2019t seem to lie about what they\u2019ve read. If you mention a book, and they haven\u2019t read it\u2014or even heard of it\u2014they\u2019ll admit to it without embarrassment, or even self-consciousness. \u201cCan you repeat the title?\u201d they might ask, or, even, \u201cThat sounds really interesting!\u201d Refreshing and laudable though this may be, I initially found it disorienting: I seem to remember that my teen and college years involved a lot of phantom reading.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s very possible that my sample is simply less pretentious and more self-confident than I was; those odds are good. But the total absence of fronting, of nodding knowingly, of glancing around furtively to gauge others\u2019 reactions\u2014this seems like an important micro-generational sea change. I had considered pretension an endearing, and enduring, trait of youth\u2014certainly I knew plenty of other kids who went in for this sort of lying. Are people now just more open about who they are? Or does having read a lot not even signify much\u2014is it not even worth lying about? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One may observe a similar lack of self-consciousness during peak tourist season in any city. Yesterday, for instance, I was seated on a downtown train next to a middle-aged couple, clearly unfamiliar with New York. \u201cI might bump into you when we come to a stop!\u201d the woman said with jolly camaraderie to a stony young man beside her. She was undeterred by his silence: \u201cHow do we know what side to get out on?\u201d she asked. The guy continued to stonewall her. \u201cI don\u2019t think he can understand me!\u201d she said loudly to her husband; she did, indeed, have something of a southern twang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll only open on one side,\u201d I said. \u201cIt\u2019ll be clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you!\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to the Staten Island Ferry. We just got to New York about two minutes ago! We don\u2019t know what we\u2019re doing!\u201d This was unnecessary; even if their open manners and colorful garb had not marked them as visitors, their maps and guidebook would have.<\/p>\n<p>I like chatting with out-of-towners. We are all ambassadors for the city, after all, and it\u2019s interesting to see your hometown through their eyes\u2014particularly as it\u2019s such a different city from the one we know. I get indignant every week when I see the jokey \u201cLies to Tell Tourists\u201d feature in <em>Time Out New York<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful day for the ferry,\u201d I said. \u201cAnd a nice way to see a lot at once. You\u2019re right to take the subway; some visitors are a little scared of it, and it can be confusing, but it\u2019s really efficient, and much cheaper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think New York gets a bad rap,\u201d she said. I was about to bask in some compliment about how friendly and helpful I was. Instead, she said, \u201cIt\u2019s not that filthy, and we haven\u2019t been mugged yet. Of course, we just got here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know why visitors think this sort of talk is appropriate, frankly. And they do it <em>all the time<\/em>. These stereotypes are twenty years old, and accuracy aside, it\u2019s extraordinarily rude to invoke them. (Besides which, the subway is indeed filthy; that they had not yet spied a rat was all the proof I needed that they\u2019d been in town for less than a day.)<\/p>\n<p>But a part of me admires the candor. I\u2019ve been led to understand that, when traveling, one does not generally wish to look like a tourist\u2014for safety reasons, of course, but also out of some desire to seem like a cosmopolitan <em>citoyen du monde<\/em>. One should express curiosity, but never ignorance. And in France, well, should someone spy an artfully knotted scarf about your neck and ask you for directions, you won\u2019t decline to give them.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the city slicker\u2019s contempt for \u201cobvious\u201d tourists springs from indignation at their failure to recognize our evident superiority. It\u2019s not just that people do not attempt to fit in\u2014whatever that means\u2014it\u2019s that <em>they don\u2019t know they\u2019re supposed to want to<\/em>. And because we fear what we don\u2019t understand, and maybe it makes a tiny, secret part of ourselves question our lives, we express our fear in scorn and maybe the occasional deliberate misdirection. That\u2019s sophistication, you see.<\/p>\n<p>So I hated them and I admired this couple. \u201cDon\u2019t let anyone try to charge you for the ferry,\u201d I said after a while. \u201cSome people run a scam where they\u2019ll try to sell you a ticket\u2014but it\u2019s free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know <em>that<\/em>,\u201d said the guy, like it was obvious, and I was patronizing them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery good,\u201d I said, and opened a book. It was a Martin Amis I\u2019d picked up in my lobby the day before. <em>I\u2019ve already read that<\/em>, had been my first thought. 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