Nikos Kazantzakis Quote of the Day No. 3
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels
posted by kathryn at Sunday, February 12, 2006
Sunday, February 12, 2006
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4 Comments:
Yes! (I'm not sure that K meant it that way, though. Must check with Panos.) But, this reminds me of the way Alain de Botton opens his Art of Travel. He dwells on the difference between expectations of a destination and the reality encountered when one arrives. I've found an excerpt of the opening here: The Art of Travel by Alain De Botton: Excerpt - On Anticipation. He mentions J. K. Huysmans's novel A Rebours, published in 1884, in which the French protagonist organises a trip to London. Does all the research, etc, etc, "creates the country" to use the Kazantzakis quote, but begins to have second thoughts, imagines it will be a drag, and returns home, thinking: 'I must have been suffering from some mental aberration to have rejected the visions of my obedient imagination and to have believed like any old ninny that it was necessary, interesting and useful to travel abroad.'.
Reposting as don't think my italics came through:
Yes! (I'm not sure that K meant it that way, though. Must check with Panos.) But, this reminds me of the way Alain de Botton opens his "Art of Travel". He dwells on the difference between expectations of a destination and the reality encountered when one arrives. I've found an excerpt of the opening here: The Art of Travel by Alain De Botton: Excerpt - On Anticipation. He mentions J. K. Huysmans's novel "A Rebours", published in 1884, in which the French protagonist organises a trip to London. Does all the research, etc, etc, "creates the country" to use the Kazantzakis quote, but begins to have second thoughts, imagines it will be a drag, and returns home, thinking: "I must have been suffering from some mental aberration to have rejected the visions of my obedient imagination and to have believed like any old ninny that it was necessary, interesting and useful to travel abroad."
Oh that's good. Like taking home with you.
May be if what you create in your mind is full of anticipation and not expectation then it's ok.
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