Amazing sentence and your illuminating analysis is brilliant, as always. I'm wondering what you think of Bruce Chatwin and Pico Iyer, (both, among others, I enjoy for their writing and not so much their 'travel') and Paul Theroux, who I've never liked, I guess because I don't like his writing, period.
"I don’t especially care about places; I care about people." Me too! When my husband and I visited Rome before we had kids, schlepping ourselves from ruin to ruin, I said, "I just wish someone would invite us up for lunch and tell me all about their life." I pictured an old woman wrapped in shawls, smelling faintly of oregano.
I'm glad you've discovered Jan Morris - my dad read many of her books and introduced me to them some years ago. They are easy to get lost in.
Amazing sentence and your illuminating analysis is brilliant, as always. I'm wondering what you think of Bruce Chatwin and Pico Iyer, (both, among others, I enjoy for their writing and not so much their 'travel') and Paul Theroux, who I've never liked, I guess because I don't like his writing, period.
"I don’t especially care about places; I care about people." Me too! When my husband and I visited Rome before we had kids, schlepping ourselves from ruin to ruin, I said, "I just wish someone would invite us up for lunch and tell me all about their life." I pictured an old woman wrapped in shawls, smelling faintly of oregano.