In the book there are beautiful places/thing that are "undiscovered"(not many people know of about them).This includes the pillbox bunker paintings, Lydia's play, and Porto Vergogna. All of these things were found in an unexpected places; the play in a local theater in Sandpoint Idaho, the paintings hidden in the pillbox, and Porto Vergogna a small town in Italy.
"This wasn't what Claire was expecting(comunity theater? in Idaho) when they arrived in Sandpoint, a funky Old West ski town on the shores of this huge mountain lake. With no time to check into their hotel, the investigator took them strait to the Panida Theater, its lovely vertical descending sign marking a quaint store front in the small L-shaped downtown, classic old box opening into a Deco theater-too big for this small, personal play, but an impressive room nonetheless,"(Walter 295)
Claire is enamored by Lydia's play and the venue in Sandpoint. I think part of the reason for this is because she didn't expect much and the surprise also added to her excitement.
"At first, it seemed like the saddest thing to me," she said, "that no one would ever see these paintings. But then I got to thinking: What if you tried to take this wall and put it in a Gallery somewhere? I would simply be five faded paintings in a Gallery. And that's when I realized perhaps they're only remarkable because they are here."(Walter 273)
Dee explains that the paintings were so beautiful because of the setting that surrounded them. To me there is something so cool about journeying into the woods to find a hiding place with unknown paintings. It reminds me of my childhood dreams of discovering buried treasure in my backyard.That's why I think people like unexpected surprises; they are surreal, like dreams.
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