Alright. So it's decided. I'm going. I've decided I'm going to defer my third year of university and I'm going to piss off around the globe like so many before me. See i wanted to go have a year off as soon as i finished school but i had no money and even less drive and basically all i really wanted was to do nothing. So i started uni and t…
Travellers through the centuries have threaded their baser motives of profit and pleasure with a subtler, and sometimes even unconscious, compulsion - the search for the genii loci. In the purer realm of travel, which has nothing to do with vacations, humans hope to be moved rather than to move. They seek an external geography that will act on their internal pschology like an irresistible force, so that they will return to the place from which they came blessed and altered.
Shirley…
Travellers through the centuries have threaded their baser motives of profit and pleasure with a subtler, and sometimes even unconscious, compulsion - the search for the genii loci. In the purer realm of travel, which has nothing to do with vacations, humans hope to be moved rather than to move. They seek an external geography that will act on their internal pschology like an irresistible force, so that they will return to the place from which they came blessed and altered.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, 'The Town Where Time Stands Still.' From the 'Pillowbook of Dr. Jazz.'
Alright. So it's decided. I'm going. I've decided I'm going to defer my third year of university and I'm going to piss off around the globe like so many before me. See i wanted to go have a ye…
