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Seated opposite is Thomas Wes Bentleyy), the smiling security guard who only wants to share his Christmas dinner and love of Hemingway -- a predilection guaranteed to make any thinking woman run for the hills.
After farting our way down the long main drive of our hotel grounds, we waved to the smiling security guards at the entrance, then ventured down the dusty potholed main road in search of a pharmacy.
Every one of us is implicated in it, too, because no matter what it's offensive: pretty-on-purpose poses are dumb; straight-ahead all-smiles security-pass-style retreats from the ego-strokes of good angles are dumb; photos of somebody else entirely (like, say, Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose picture is my current Facebook profile pic) is dumb.
It is now standard for architectural anoraks like myself to find ourselves challenged by smile-less security as we go about our blameless business – no loitering, no photography, no looking, as if al-Qaida scouts would do their dastardly work in this way or as if, years after the invention of the camera phone, photography can be controlled as it could in the age of the tripod.
"So far it has not been negative," smiled one security source.
I smiled at his security measure.
I lingered there, studying it, and smiled at the security guard and the lady in black inside, who had noticed my interest.
As Mr. Perry made his way toward the counter, he cheerfully dismissed the hecklers — one of whom kept pressing him on his views about Social Security— smiling at them, reaching over their heads to sign copies of his book, and ordering a popover, which he called a "pop-up".
I smiled at the security guy.
The security guard smiles.
The security official smiled.
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