Armchair Travel

A trip might be nice...

Travel in a time of virus…

.

Perry: It palls after a while.

.

Grendel: What?

.

Perry: Being at home. Looking at the view. Watching migratory birds starting to depart on journeys. Leaving behind us flightless humans. Feet start itching so I read a travel book. Took trips to Ethiopia, Nepal, Tibet and India last week.

.

Grendel: Armchair travel?

.

Perry: The chair arms hold your book up, and as you read you vicariously experience the pleasure and the pain of travel.

.

Grendel: Ah. Schadenfreude. Pleasure in reading about the pain of others.

__________

Voice-over

Evidence of accompanying Pico Iyer through his Tropical Classical. Not just about travel but meeting exceptional people like the Dalai Lama, hearing Iyer's views on what books by Indian, British, Japanese, and American writers really meant, and smiling at his deconstructions of languages, dramas, genres and punctuation.

...