“ The tourist certainly yearns for the authentic—and tourism fuels that desire. In sights of the national past, for example, travel promotions lure tourists with the temptation to “stand on the very spot the general fell,”“witness the actual sights, sounds and smells of the clashing troops,”“see the original manuscript later drafted into law,”“observe the genuine skills the early settlers used in making soap,” etc. In the rhetoric of authenticity, italicized adjectives certify the real.
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, ‘Suit Case Studies: The Production of a National Past,’ p. 34
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