Road to Elsewhere, Excerpt #32*: The Journey, Not the Arrival, Matters. (Unless You're in a Train Station in Paris.)
Rewriting T.S. Eliot's rule, with wine bottle in hand.
I STOLE HALF OF THAT HEADLINE FROM T.S. ELIOT, plus a lot of other Big Heads who said more or less the same thing (Leonard Woolf, Joseph Conrad, et al). But what do they know? It certainly isn’t true in Paris, where the train stations are either the best part of the journey, or a reason not to go anywhere else at all.
In his painting “Chemin de Fer,” E…
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