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Jim O'Donnell
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“Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.”
― The Songlines
― The Songlines
“A journey is a fragment of Hell.”
― The Songlines
― The Songlines
“I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.”
― In Patagonia
― In Patagonia
“I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.”
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“The sad engineer would never go back to England; he would become one of these elderly expatriates who hide out in remote countries, with odd sympathies, a weakness for the local religion, an unreasonable anger, and the kind of total recall that drives curious strangers away. ”
― The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
― The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
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Jim’s 2025 Year in Books
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