“The device accepted his card and told him he could have 1800 francs. Pierre Dupont pressed the button beside this figure on the screen. The device asked him to wait a moment and then delivered the sum requested, reminding him as it did so to withdraw his card. «Thank you for your custom», it added as Pierre Dupont arranged the banknotes in his wallet (...).
He strolled past the window-displays of luxury goods, glancing briefly at their jewellery, clothing and scent bottles, then called at the bookshop where he leafed through a couple of magazines before choosing an undemanding book: travel, adventure, spy fiction. Then he resumed his unhurried progress.
He was enjoying the feeling of freedom imparted by having got rid of his luggage and at the same time, more intimately, by the certainty that, now that he was ‘sorted out’, his identity registered, his boarding pass in his pocket, he had nothing to do but wait for the sequence of events. ‘Roissy, just the two of us!’: these days, surely, it was in these crowded places where thousands of individual itineraries converged for a moment, unware of one another, that there survived something of the uncertain charm of the waste lands, the yards and building sites, the station platforms and waiting rooms where travellers break step, of all the chance meeting places where fugitive feelings occur of the possibility of continuing adventure, the feeling that all there is to do is to ‘see what happens'”.
M. Augè, Non-Places. Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
Concept by Giulia De Giorgi, Michela Murialdo, Giovanni Paolin, Roberta Perego, Davide Spagnoletto
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