These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot
Showing posts with label foreignness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreignness. Show all posts

Friday, May 11, 2012

Foreignness


















Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities


Image: Georgiana Kelly, Bodleian Library, Oxford