“It’s true that travel is the saddest of pleasures, the long-distance overland b
“It’s true that travel is the saddest of pleasures, the long-distance overland blues. Most people on Earth are poor. Most places are blighted and nothing will stop the blight from getting worse. Travel gives you glimpses of the past & future, your own and other people’s. But there are too many people and an enormous number of them spend their hungry days thinking about America as the Mother Ship. Most of the world is worsening, shrinking to a ball of bungled desolation, only the old can see how gracelessly the world is aging and all that we have lost. Politicians are always inferior to their citizens. No one on Earth is well governed. Is there hope? Yes. Most people I’d met, in chance encounters, were strangers who helped me on my way. And we lucky ghosts can travel wherever we want. The going is still good, because arrivals are departures.” -Paul Theroux (at Jemaa El-Fna جامع الفناء) -- source link
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