Austin Fleth’s Reviews > Travels with Charley > Status Update

“my coffee a wine-dark happiness”

“Having a companion fixes you in time and that the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present, and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present.”

“Every one of us are descended from the restless ones, the wayward ones who were not content to stay at home. Wouldn't it be unusual if we had not inherited this tendency?”
“…Roots were in ownership of land, in tangible and immovable possessions.
Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else”

“Driving, I have written long, detailed letters never to be put to paper, much less sent.…
I have projected future scenes, just as complete and convincing—scenes that will never take place. I've written short stories in my mind, chuckling at my own humor, saddened or stimulated by structure or content.”

“In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.” pg. 76

“For this reason I cannot commend this account as an America that you will find. So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.” pg. 77