Friday, March 6, 2009

Independent Reading-14-Key Quote

"But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses."
--Bill Bryson
This book, Neither Here nor There is a travelers novel and this quotation captures the very essence of what it feels like to travel in a foreign country that you have never been to before. The last line of the quotation really hold significant value to the book itself: "Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses." Because that is how the narrator lives his life, one interesting guess at a time.

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