Monday, February 21, 2011

Strange and magnificent ...

... The News From Everywhere. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

If Chatwin, in the words of Mr. Shakespeare, "traveled as much to leave one self behind as to find another," his final illness settled him. He visited Mt. Athos and declared himself a convert to Greek Orthodoxy. "The search for nomads is a quest for God," he wrote in a notebook.

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