home

"huck never returned from the territory, as far as we know. yet captain gulliver went home, wiser but also alienated and revolted not by the trip but by the domestic scene. unable to stand the yahoo smell that adhered to his wife and the sight of his savage-looking family, he comforted himself by talking to his horse and finding companionship in the stable. travel had changed him. you go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back. you think, i is someone else, like rimbaud."

- paul theroux, dark star safari