Citat av Lillen

Paul Theroux, the great travel-writer and novelist, calls it the ‘awkward question;’ when an innocent adventurer, back from some hell-hole, gets asked ‘why?’ at a cocktail party, or on the street. Fighters and adventurers will go to great lengths to avoid answering.

Theroux stuck it to Gerard d’Aboville, about rowing a small boat across the Pacific in 1993, with “enormous personal risk.” Gerard resisted the question, and then Theroux recounts the answer:

“Only an animal does useful things,” he said at last, after a long silence. “An animal gets food, finds a place to sleep, tries to keep comfortable. But I wanted to do something that was not useful, not like an animal at all. Something only a human being would do.”

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