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They were in the sky; now they are here. They get into cars. They drive away, rescind a dimension, just like that.
Mark Vanhoenacker • Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
Almost everything that is meaningful, beautiful, life-affirming, empowering, transformational, true—it can’t be reached by shortcuts. But what we can do is make the longcuts walkable, put out footbridges and stairs, and a table where the ocean comes into view.
On Shortcuts and Longcuts
Even today many travellers leave home not just to see new places, but also to see the whole of the place they have left from the various kinds of distance – cultural, physical, linguistic – that travel opens for them. Indeed, a fascination with this perspective is something I associate with the most experienced travellers.
Mark Vanhoenacker • Skyfaring
a well-observed thing can become all the more powerful placed in the right context, the right literary framing.
Craig Mod • Looking Closely Is Everything
describing something well is both an act of incredible generosity and a literary challenge of the highest order.