their own cases. In the same way, the tourist who arrives at the 
Leaning Tower of Pisa, or the Grand Canyon of Arizona, can 
now merely check his reactions to something with which he has 
long been familiar, and take his own pictures of the same.

     To lament that the packaged tour, like the photograph, 
cheapens and degrades by making all places easy of access, is 
to miss most of the game. It is to make value judgments with 
fixed  reference to the fragmentary perspective of literary 
culture. It is the same position that considers a literary 
landscape as superior to a movie travelogue. For the untrained 
awareness, all reading and all movies, like all travel, are equally 
banal and unnourishing as experience. Difficulty of access does 
not confer adequacy of perception, though it may involve an 
object in an aura of pseudovalues, as with a gem, a movie star, 
or an old master. This now brings us to the factual core of the