‘And yet it is every traveller’s conceit that no one will see what he has seen.......'



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‘And yet it is every traveller’s conceit that no one will see what he has seen: his trip displaces the landscape and his version of events is all that matters. He is certainly kidding himself in this, but if he didn’t kid himself a little he would never go anywhere.’



Paul Theroux, The Kingdom by the Sea



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