alone in his struggle to bring the truth to its people. He consoled himself by recalling that it is only in each man’s own consciousness that the iso… - Paul Bowles

nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.

Another important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to this liking.

"the writer:

"a spy sent into life by the forces of death. His main objective is to get the information across the border, back into death. Then he can be given a mythic personality: 'he spent time among us, betrayed us, and took the material across the border.