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'Life is a hospital in which every patient is obsessed with changing beds. This one wants to suffer in front of the radiator, ad that one thinks he'd get better if he was by the window' 'It always seems to me that I'll be well where I am not and this question of moving is one that I'm forever entertaining with my soul.' Le Voyage, Baudelaire Boudelaire honoured reveries of travel as a mark of those noble questing souls whom he describe as 'poets', who could not be satsfiedwith he horizons of home even as they appreciated the limits of other lands, whose temperaments oscillated between hope and despair, childlike idealism and cynicism. 'leave for leaving's sake' p280 I remained in one corner, eating fingers of chocolate and taking occasional sips of orange juice. I felt lonely but, for once, this was a gentle, even pleasant kind of loneliness because, rather than unfolding against a backdrop of laughter and fellowship, in which I would suffer from a contrast between my mood ad the environment, it had its locus in a place where everyone was a stranger, where the difficulties of communication and the frustrated longing for love seemed to be acknoledged and brutally celebrated by the architecture and lighting. p283 Others in the room may be on their own as well, men and women drinking coffee by themselves, similarly lost in thought, similarly distanced from society: a common isolation with the beneficial effect of lessenng the oppresive sense within any one person that they are alone in being alone. In roadside diners and late-night cafeterias, hotel lobbies and station cafes, we may dilute a feeling of isolation in a lonely public place and hence rediscover a distinctive sense of community. p286 Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to intenal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Intrspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. P289 'From the late 18th century onwards, it is no longer from the practice of community but from bein a wanderer that the instinct of fellowfeeling is derived. Thus an essential isolation an silence and loneliness become the carriers of nature and community against the rigours, the cold abstinence, the selfish ease of ordinary society' Raymond Williams, The Country and the City P301 In the more fugitive, trivial association of the word exotic, the charm of a foreign place arises from the simple idea of novelty and change...But there may be a more profound pleasure: we may value foreign elements not only because they are new, but because they seem to accord more faithfully with our identity and commitments than anything our homeland could provide. p344 'What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind.' Ode: Intimations of Immortality P357 Our identities are to a greater of lesser extent malleable; that we change accoding to whom -and sometimes what - we are with. The company of certain people excites our generosity and sensitivity, of others, our competitiveness and envy...What may then be expected to occur to a person's identity in the company of a cataract or mountain, an oak tree or a celandine - objects which, after all, have no conscious concerns and so, it would seem, cannot eiter encourage or censor behaviour? ...Natural scences have the power to suggest certain values t us - oak dignity, pines resolution, lakes calm - and, in unobtrusive ways, may therefore act as inspirations to virtue. P360 Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with. P413 'It does a bullet no goo to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no ham to go slow; for his glory is not at ll in going, but in being.' 'Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone. ' Drawing allows us, 'to stay the cloud in its fading, the leaf in its trembling, and the shadows in their changing' Ruskin P429 'The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quitely in his room.' Pascal, Pensees, 136 P433 What, then, is a travelling mindset? Receptivity might be said to be its chief characteristic. We approach new places with humility. We carry with us no rigid ideas about what is interesting. We irritate locals because we stand on traffic ilands and in narrow streets and admire what they take to be strange small details. P438 'When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences - their insignificant, everyday experiences - so tha they become an arable soil that bears fruit tree times a year, while others - and how many there are! - are driven through surging waves of destiny, the most multifarious currents of the times and the nations, and yet always remin on top, bobbing like a cork, then we are in the end tempted to divide mankind into a minority of those who know how to make much of little, and a majority of those who know how to make little of much.' Nietzsche引自第270页
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