The Joys Of Travel
This talk is meant for those of my listeners who love the murky look of railway platforms at night, the acrid smell of engine smoke, the ghostly and cadaverous reflections of sleeping faces in the black windows of a train that hurries them through unknown countries during the small cold hours of the morning. I speak to those of you who, though you may never have felt it, would like the chilly dawn wind that blows in your face if you lean out of your cabin porthole before sunrise, who would find satisfaction in the companionable throb and quiver, the small creaks, of a great ship's progress across a lonely ocean, and to those of you who would be deeply pleased by the giant whisper of a night sea breaking against the side of your ship, close beside you as you like in your bunk. I have never yet met anybody who, believing he will love travel, is not disappointed in this or that landfall, disillusioned by one or the other Famous Sight, but he will never find himself betrayed by the smaller inescapable sensations of train of steamer or find any stimulant to equal thos2 of setting out on a long journey or arriving at a strange destination-(Ngaio Marsh, " Remembered Trifles,’ 3YA, June 20.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 54, 5 July 1940, Page 8
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219The Joys Of Travel New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 54, 5 July 1940, Page 8
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