“The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.” MindArtPastImaginationConscienceTraditionPretending Book:The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations Source: The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations
“Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.” IfsMindHas BeensArtTwoMomentsAgeMovingRiskSecurityPureTravelMassPreparedEntrepreneurshipExplorationTravelerPublicityRenaissanceTouristsBourgeoisTourismExplorers Author:Paul Fussell
“Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.” MindPersonsTwoIdeasSeemsAbleThreeSeriousTravelRegardIronicClownTruestTravellerInconsistentSerious Person Author:Paul Fussell
“Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.” MindStudyDevelopmentJudgmentFruitFormationTourismAdornment Book:Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars Source: Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars
