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The deadly power of rushing about wherever I pleased had not been given me. I measured distances by the standard of man, man walking on his two feet, not by the internal combustion engine. I had not been allowed to deflower the very idea of distance; in return I possessed “infinite riches” in what would have been to motorists “a little room.” The truest and most horrible claim made for modern transport is that it “annihilates distance.” It does. It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts we have been given… A modern boy travels a hundred miles with less sense of liberation and pilgrimage and adventure than his grandfather got from traveling ten.
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C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy. (via mills)

I skimmed this too quickly Friday afternoon and saw it on my laptop again this morning, calling for a slower rereading. For all my love of travel, I wholeheartedly believe Lewis is right.
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