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I'm after Catman Do. Do join me. The receptionist at my Ipernamer Hotel in Rio hardly looked up from his desk as he began the customary admonitions.

Make sure to use the double lock on your door, sir.

And don't take any valuables with you to the beach, sir.

And don't hail taxes on the streets so use the hotel

service well thank you I said thank you thank you very much and would you like to

join tonight's Candombly tour it's the Favella Tour, sir, but tonight it includes the Cantombly ceremony.

People go into trances, he added, helpfully.

Oh, trances, eh added, helpfully.

Well, I duly did the tour, and through the unglazed window of a half-constructed favela house,

I watched women dressed in long white gowns chanting and indeed falling into what looked like

semi-conscious states. For no more than a second one of the

entranced women gazed in my direction and made fleeting, fleeting eye contact. Was she, I thought,

intelligently slyly repelling my tourist gaze? Well I remember that

ambiguous moment as I was reading a new research paper in the journal Geo Forum with the title

Empowering the Empowered Question Mark Slum Tourism and the Deep

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