The most inept city dwellers sometimes receive friendliness and protection instead of harm

Evidence

There is a marvelous paradox in all this. As we have seen in this and the preceding three chapters, city dwellers work very hard at acquiring urban know-how so that they may either avoid the city altogether or adventure in it with a minimum of risk. And yet, here are these two improbable adventurers, hicks and eccentrics, illiterate in, or inattentive to, city ways. And what is their reward? Sometimes, at least, friendliness, protection, normalization. The most inept participants in the world of strangers are, on occasion, its most pampered citizens. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1028

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Impersonality in urban modernity is a positive achievement, not a loss. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2196