• A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.

    Paul Theroux: A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler.  Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble.  Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.
    Paul Theroux (2012). “The Lower River”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt