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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

Jonathan Raban

Jonathan Raban (b. 1942), British author, critic. For Love and Money, pt. 5 (1987).

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