I thought that if I ate the food of the area I was visiting.
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That I might assimilate the point of view of the people there.
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As if the point of view was somehow in the food.
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So I would make no choices myself regarding what food I ate.
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I would simply follow the examples of those around me.
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I would study menus very carefully,
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Making note of important differences and similarities.
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When shopping at the supermarket
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I felt a great desire to walk off with someone else's groceries
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So that I could study them at length
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And study their effects on me.
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As though if I ate their groceries I would become that person; until I finished their groceries.
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And we might find ourselves going to the same places.
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Running into one another at the movies
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Or in a shopping mall.
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Reading the same books.
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Watching the same TV programmes.
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Wearing the same clothes.
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Travelling to the same places.
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And taking the same pictures.
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Getting sick at the same time.
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And getting well again simultaneously.
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Finding ourselves attracted to the same people.
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Working at the same job.
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And making the same amount of money.
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Living identical lives - as long as the groceries lasted.
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Social Studies [Knee Play 4]
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| David Byrne |
