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We approach the world, futilely, as collectors. Travel demonstrates as much as any personal intimacy that we cannot elicit perfect, unmoving loyalty. Writing anything down is basically sentimental, an act of preservation, an attempt to hold a moment or image still. Travel writing wants to defeat the impermanence of being in any one place. In keeping records of the intangible\u2014people or places or experiences \u2013we attempt to forget that the things we love are not, in fact, things, and therefore can\u2019t be kept, preserved, or possessed. <\/p>\n

\u2014 Walter Benjamin<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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