Pilgrim in the Palace of Words Quotes

“We tourists, I later found out, were invited on purpose. Like all good tourists everywhere, we wore an assortment of badly fitting colourful hats and an unflattering rainbow of shorts. What we didn’t wear was black, especially in the tropical heat. So the first people the spirits saw were us. No doubt that scared them immensely.”
― Glenn Dixon, Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth

“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t take long. Even the speakers of the weaker language, or their children, anyway, soon start conversing in the more powerful tongue.”
― Glenn Dixon, Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth