"flights" because it can refer as much to a piano concerto as to the movements of a bird

" "flights" because it can refer as much to a piano concerto as to the movements of a bird, and it reminds us that "flights of fancy" take us as far from what we know as any flights in fact.

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We travel most, I mean to say, when we stumble, and we stumble most when we come to a place of poverty and need (like Haiti, perhaps, or Cambodia); and what we find in such confounding places, often, is that it is the spirit and optimism of the place that make the difficulties more haunting.

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"Sometimes," he confessed, "I wonder whether my efforts really have an effect. I sometimes feel that unless there is a bigger movement, the bigger issues will not change. But how to start this bigger movement? Originally, it must come from individual initiative." "

- SUN AFTER DARK flights into the foreign, Pico Iyer