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the traveler is “a man defining himself against a foreign background.”
The classic travel story is a tale of risk, often a quest, a retelling in trekker’s gear of the Odyssey, and concerned with enduring the vicissitudes of a quest, and then getting home safely.
We tolerate difference only when we don’t have to look at it or listen to it, as long as it doesn’t impact our lives.
over the years, the airport experience has become an extreme example of a totalitarian regime at work, making you small and suspect, depriving