Foto Paul Theroux via en.wikipedia.org
Kalau kamu pejalan dan suka baca, pasti setidak-tidaknya pernah dengar nama Paul Theroux. Pengarang dari Amerika Serikat ini namanya melambung setelah salah satu memoar perjalanannya, The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), meledak di pasaran.
Cara Paul Theroux menceritakan pengalamannya memang menarik. Di samping fakta yang valid, ia juga melengkapi tulisannya dengan humor-humor dari ironi-ironi yang ditemukannya selama traveling. Ia tak hanya mengkritik apa yang dia saksikan, namun juga kerap melakukan kritik terhadap dirinya dan negaranya sendiri, yakni Amerika Serikat.
Makanya tak heran jika kalimat-kalimat yang ditulisnya dalam buku sering dikutip, bahkan dijadikan quotes untuk kaos. Nah, dalam tulisan ini, TelusuRI bakal ngasih beberapa quotes perjalanan Paul Theroux yang diambil dari bukunya yang berjudul Dark Star Safari (2002):
1
“Home had become a routine, and routines make time pass quickly.”
—Paul Theroux
2
“The great justification for travel was not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.”
—Paul Theroux
3
“The best travel is a loop in the dark. If the destination was familiar and friendly what would be the point of going there?”
—Paul Theroux
4
“Travel is a transition, and at its best it is a journey from home, a setting forth.”
—Paul Theroux
5
“The other way, going slowly, crossing national frontiers, scuttling past razor wire with my bag and my passport, was the best way of being reminded that there was a relationship between Here and There, and that a travel narrative was the story of There and Back.”
—Paul Theroux
6
“To me, travel was not about rest and relaxation. It was action, exertion, motion, and the built-in delays were longueurs necessitated by the inevitable problem solving of forward movement; waiting for buses and trains, enduring breakdowns that you tried to make the best of.”
—Paul Theroux
7
“Travel at its best is accidental, and you can’t explain improvisation.”
—Paul Theroux
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