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From: Conradiana
Date: 20050322
Author:Brodsky, G.W. Stephen

 
   Here, then, is the forbidden land. One's eyes explore ... dimly 
   through a haze. One would not have it laid out with the precision of 
   a diagram.... Here was civilization longing for the wilderness, and 
   over there, beyond the mist ..., were men in the wilderness longing 
   for civilization.... That implacable barrier must be crossed again, 
   and then, when we have won the most secret places of the earth, we 
   may cry with Burton and his Arabs, 'Voyaging is victory!' (The 
   Unveiling of Lhasa, 82, 126) 

These lines from the author who had returned from his heart of ...

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