When Man Meets An Obstacle He Can't

There Aren't Many Such Enthusiasts Born. The Average Person Is Not Especially Curious About The World. He Is Alive, And Being Somehow Obliged To Deal With This Condition, Feels The Less Effort It Requires, The Better. Whereas Learning About The World Is Labor, And A Great All-consuming One At That. Most People Develop Quite Antithetical Talents, In Fact - To Look Without Seeing, To Listen Without Hearing, Mainly To Preserve Onself Within Oneself.

In A Society Of Little Economic Development, Universal Inactivity Accompanies Universal Poverty. You Survive Not By Struggling Against Nature, Or By Increasing Production, Or By Relentless Labor; Instead You Survive By Expending As Little Energy As Possible, By Striving Constantly To Achieve A State Of Immobility.

A Journey, After All, Neither Begins In The Instant We Set Out, Nor Ends When We Have Reached Our Door Step Once Again. It Starts Much Earlier And Is Really Never Over, Because The Film Of Memory Continues Running On Inside Of Us Long After We Have Come To A Physical Standstill. Indeed, There Exists Something Like A Contagion Of Travel, And The Disease Is Essentially Incurable.

Most Correspondents Came From The Former Colonial Powers - There Were British, French, And A Lot Of Italians, Because There Were A Lot Of Italian Communities There. And Of Course There Were A Lot Of Russians.

When Man Meets An Obstacle He Can't Destroy, He Destroys Himself.