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I have traveled to India once, on assignment. I was astonished by what I saw and humbled by how little I understood. While walking a street in Mumbai I spotted a tiny, ancient woman in a sari, heating an iron on a brazier and using it to iron an enormous stack of clothes. We locked eyes for a moment, and I thought: how wide is the gulf between us? How narrow as well! Especially if I had a wrinkled shirt that needed tending to! As a traveler, India remains the destination I’ll never exhaust or actually get to know, but it instills a yearning for more. It will take several reincarnations for me to truly see it.

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What a brilliant distillation of Paz's thinking! I simply have to read him now, and not be content with having read about him. Thanks for another wonderful piece. A big doff of the hat to you to do this week after week, regardless of what life throws at you. I will read this several times over, and keep it by my side when I do get down to reading Paz.

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