Paul Bowles in his wonderful 1949 novel The Sheltering Sky talks of the difference between a traveler and a tourist.I quote from Chapter 2 page 6 of the Vintage International Edition 1977. This great book made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci met me onceagain on the road in a book shop in Guanojuato.
" He did not think of himself as a tourist, he was a traveler.The difference is partly one of time, he would explain.Where as the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than the nex, moves slowly, over a period of years, from one part of the earth to another."
"For as he claimed, another important difference between tourist and traveler is tat the former accepts his own civilization without question, not so the traveler, who compares it with others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking."
Image/ traveling through space & time some where over the Gulf Of Mexico.
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