Tuesday, October 2, 2007

In Reflection: A Couple Quotes

"You know, coming home and finding things all right, thought not quite the same." Sam Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein

An effect of traveling in distant places is to make one reflect on one's past and one's culture from the outside." - Auden

One of the problems of the world, I begin to discover, is that there are too many people just like me.--J. Epstein

The diverting history of John Gilpin, showing how he went further than he intended and came safely home again. Title pages of William Cowper's poem

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