Navia reminds us that the island is obviously more “an ideal state of mind than an actual place,” and that inhabitants of Pera, “contemplat[ing] the immensity of that ‘wine-colored sea of fog’ that surrounds their home,” spend their lives trying to bring others who are lost in typhos to their shore through the practice of philosophy. In other words, reaching Pera requires nothing more and nothing less than voluntate, studio, disciplina.
