It is an astonishing contrast to be going at fifteen miles a day one day and at fifteen hundred the next. I had so got into the habit of moving at the same rate as people did a thousand years ago, with the camels, that now I found it difficult to realize I was every day flying over new countries inhabited by different races.
E. Maillart, Forbidden journey (1935), 310
A digital form of the sadly lost fashion for copying out memorable passages from texts. I kept losing my actual book.
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
It is an astonishing contrast to be going at fifteen miles a day one day and at fifteen hundred the next
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