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“The word travel is the same as the French travail. It means hard work, penance and finally a journey. There was an idea, particularly in the Middle Ages, that by going on pilgrimage, as Muslim pilgrims do, you were reinstating the original condition of man. The act of walking through a wilderness was thought to bring you back to God. That is something you find in all religions.”
–Bruce Chatwin, interview with Michael Ignatieff in Granta 21, Spring 1987
