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28 June 2003

Travel as escape

There is no escape from language, warns Jacques Derrida. Similarly there is no escape from the crowd. Had I any notions there was something original in my discovery of the delights of Genoa last month, or contemplating the Festival au Désert in Mali next winter, finding articles about both in today’s Daily Telegraph magazine should have cured me of them.

Posted by SJT at June 28, 2003 09:57 PM

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