ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the intensification of sensations in the space of a beach front tourist paradise but only to disrupt the vibe with the burdens of that same paradise, conjured out of the unnerving re-appearance on Placencia Bay Beach of a tourist locally named 'Peter Pete'. There is a particular quality of the light, sound, and touch as you approach the beach in Placencia, a rapidly growing seaside fishing village in southern Belize that has 'gone crazy' for tourism. It lends itself to a feel for the place, the impact of which, as Jim and Cindy said the first moment they laid eyes on it, 'takes your breath away'. This is the body as disjunctive encompassment, a kind of continuity but unlike one that follows a narrative line exhausting its signifying possibilities in the meanings or as a type or illustration of some socio-political process.
