Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.
Bruce ChatwinAs you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.
Bruce ChatwinIt's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.
Bruce ChatwinI never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
Bruce Chatwin