August 13, 2015

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Travelling is a fool's paradise. . .I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. . .My giant goes with me wherever I go. -- RW Emerson

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sartre: Being precedes doing and having. Hammett's story about a guy who narrowly averts an accidental death, shaken to his core abandons his family, moves to a different city, starts all over in a new life, identical to the one he left behind.