Comments on: Travel Porn http://goodandlost.org/2009/04/17/63/ A Season in the Wind Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:50:45 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Cate http://goodandlost.org/2009/04/17/63/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Cate Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:09:19 +0000 http://goodandlost.org/?p=63#comment-144 “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” - Cesare Pavese the same sort of process happens to me at Amazon.com & Barnes & Noble...but you're right. Pictures are worth a thousand words, but the silent mosaic they make in your head only satisfy until your soul learns there are other languages with other songs. And then, photographs are merely beautiful instruments of torment. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

the same sort of process happens to me at Amazon.com & Barnes & Noble…but you’re right. Pictures are worth a thousand words, but the silent mosaic they make in your head only satisfy until your soul learns there are other languages with other songs. And then, photographs are merely beautiful instruments of torment.

]]> By: Good and Lost » Rain and Random Happenstance http://goodandlost.org/2009/04/17/63/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Good and Lost » Rain and Random Happenstance Sun, 17 May 2009 13:00:48 +0000 http://goodandlost.org/?p=63#comment-129 [...] Room of the college library (yes, you’ve seen it before; a clear example of the dangers of travel porn). The Book of Kells was first, and quite interesting if very touristy. The star of the show, [...] [...] Room of the college library (yes, you’ve seen it before; a clear example of the dangers of travel porn). The Book of Kells was first, and quite interesting if very touristy. The star of the show, [...]

]]> By: tsraveling http://goodandlost.org/2009/04/17/63/comment-page-1/#comment-31 tsraveling Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:26:14 +0000 http://goodandlost.org/?p=63#comment-31 Trinity College Library, in Dublin. Mid-May. ;) Trinity College Library, in Dublin. Mid-May. ;)

]]> By: Samantha http://goodandlost.org/2009/04/17/63/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Samantha Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:32:55 +0000 http://goodandlost.org/?p=63#comment-28 hilarious article, and so true! and where is that gorgeous photo from? the cycle begins... hilarious article, and so true! and where is that gorgeous photo from? the cycle begins…

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