but there is something prescient in his insistence that everything is linked. In his best stories, he gives us licence to travel freely. He introduces us to people and to texts we would not otherwise have encountered. He makes the world
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“later i sat in the mosque balcony as the sun rose, watching while it unpicked the dark and misty folds of the forest and coloured the Bashgul river. We were all overcome by the fabulous richness of the landscape, the opulence of the wooden architecture, the yellow green coombes of ripening corn, the glistening trees.”
― The Light Garden of the Angel King: Travels in Afghanistan with Bruce Chatwin
― The Light Garden of the Angel King: Travels in Afghanistan with Bruce Chatwin
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