Read: Paul Theroux’s ‘Time After Time’

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In this short, evocative piece from legendary travel writer Paul Theroux in November’s Condé Nast Traveler, he questions the power of travel:

“You may live in a place for months, even years, and it does not touch you…but a weekend or a night in another, and you feel as if your whole being has been sprayed with the equivalent of a cosmic wind.”

Travel Makes Life Feel Longer

After a career on the road, novelist Paul Theroux ponders the tricks travel plays on memory—and the ways it can make time stretch.

Condé Nast TravelerPaul Theroux

Photo Source: Condé Nast Traveler, November 2024

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