"...journeys are sparked from small and unlikely things rather than grand conviction."
An Unexpected Light - Travels In Afghanistan by Jason Elliot, Picador, London, 1999 - page 4.
Could be true. A tale of lost love, a story about a street or river, a wall or mountain. A brief passage in a book such as...'When James left Ulan Bator, the winds had turned the skies pink'. The reader then wonders, why is the sky pink in Ulan Bator? I'd like to see this for myself. And off they go...
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