course, I know that there’s an element of pop psychology about how much you can read into people’s favorite travel locations. You can choose which aspects of a nation’s character you want to accept or ignore. In the case of Keaty, I chose liveliness and enthusiasm because mercenary and calculating didn’t fit the bill, and in the case of Françoise I ignored dictatorship and mass murder in East Timor. But nonetheless, I have faith in the principle.
