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FOURTEEN. Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. -T. S. Eliot
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
- ONE. Most serious thought in our time struggles with the feeling of homelessness 1
- TWO. Ubi bene, ibi patria (Your home is where they treat you well) -Latin proverb 9
- THREE. I think of two landscapes-one outside the self, the other within. -Barry Lopez 16
- FOUR. A house is a good thing. You can lock it up and go and live anywhere you like. -Walter Pukatiwara 28
- FIVE. He departed with thoughts of home, He departed with thoughts of home, He departed towards another place. -Honey-Ant Men's Song 41
- SIX. I don't really know what happened. If one wished to be solemn, it could be said that I had found my landscape, my real home. -Ingmar Bergman 50
- SEVEN. It is suicide to be abroad. But w hat is it to be at home, ... what is it to be at home? -Samuel Beckett 60
- EIGHT. Man's real life is not a house, but the Road, and . .. life itself is a journey to be walked on foot. -Bruce Chatwin 74
- NINE. There's too much poverty below us. Every leaf defines its limits. All roots have their histories. -Derek Walcott 88
- TEN. My country is the place where I can cut a spear or make a spear-thrower without asking anyone. -A Western Desert man 102
- ELEVEN. And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot 112
- TWELVE. Place is security, space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other. There is no place like home. -Yi-Fu Tuan 126
- THIRTEEN. Man does not relate to the world as subject to object, as eye to painting; nor even as actor to stage set. Man and the world are bound together like the snail to its shell. -Milan Kundera 137
- FOURTEEN. Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. -T. S. Eliot 147
- EPILOGUE. Authenticity comes from a single faithfulness: that to the ambiguity of experience. Its energy is to be found in how one event leads to another. Its mystery is not in the words but on the page. -John Berger 156
- POSTSCRIPT 173
- NOTES 177
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
- ONE. Most serious thought in our time struggles with the feeling of homelessness 1
- TWO. Ubi bene, ibi patria (Your home is where they treat you well) -Latin proverb 9
- THREE. I think of two landscapes-one outside the self, the other within. -Barry Lopez 16
- FOUR. A house is a good thing. You can lock it up and go and live anywhere you like. -Walter Pukatiwara 28
- FIVE. He departed with thoughts of home, He departed with thoughts of home, He departed towards another place. -Honey-Ant Men's Song 41
- SIX. I don't really know what happened. If one wished to be solemn, it could be said that I had found my landscape, my real home. -Ingmar Bergman 50
- SEVEN. It is suicide to be abroad. But w hat is it to be at home, ... what is it to be at home? -Samuel Beckett 60
- EIGHT. Man's real life is not a house, but the Road, and . .. life itself is a journey to be walked on foot. -Bruce Chatwin 74
- NINE. There's too much poverty below us. Every leaf defines its limits. All roots have their histories. -Derek Walcott 88
- TEN. My country is the place where I can cut a spear or make a spear-thrower without asking anyone. -A Western Desert man 102
- ELEVEN. And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot 112
- TWELVE. Place is security, space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other. There is no place like home. -Yi-Fu Tuan 126
- THIRTEEN. Man does not relate to the world as subject to object, as eye to painting; nor even as actor to stage set. Man and the world are bound together like the snail to its shell. -Milan Kundera 137
- FOURTEEN. Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. -T. S. Eliot 147
- EPILOGUE. Authenticity comes from a single faithfulness: that to the ambiguity of experience. Its energy is to be found in how one event leads to another. Its mystery is not in the words but on the page. -John Berger 156
- POSTSCRIPT 173
- NOTES 177
