are you dreaming, Frederick?

"The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save--the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour--your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life—the greater is the store of your estranged being."
--Karl Marx


"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."
--Carson McCullers


"Travel Tickets"
On the day I am killed
my murderer, while searching my pockets,
will find travel tickets:
One goes to peace
one goes to fields and the rain
one
goes to the conscience of mankind

My murderer, I beg you:
Do not stay and waste them.
Take them. Use them.
I beg you to travel.
--Samih al-Qasim, translator unknown