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Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars (Fussell), 58 Abuses (Lingis), 129 Accra, Ghana, 73–74, 76, 121 “Acid” (Oliver), 15 activities: as death, 105–6; failed, 96; in travel, 91–93 Agra, Ghana, 5, 20, 31 anancial, 156; to health, 156; mortal , 83; in passage, 82–83; as religiously valuable, 106; sought, 7, 14, 48, 93, 99 death, 23, 96; in Bowles’s travel, 98– 99, 100; John Donne and, 85; and religion, 84–85, 106; in Sheltering Sky, 97; through strangers, 126–27; and the unconscious, 105–6 deconstruction. See postmodernism “Death’s Duel” (Donne), 85 de-domestication, 134 despojo, 150 Dhaka, Bangladesh, 174 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (Donne), 85 “dirt,” 54, 79, 80, 128 disciplinary hearings, 25–26, 30 disease, 23, 29, 101, 109 disequilibrium, 96; moral, 88; physical , 87; spatial, 88 disorientation, 14–16, 88–89. See also disequilibrium divination, 149–50 Djemaa el Fna, 102 Donne, John, 22, 85; “Death’s Duel,” 85; Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 85 dragomon, 156–57 dream, 28, 29, 101, 102, 126, 135, 180; journeys in, 90 drugs, 104–5, 180 Durrell, Lawrence, 59 Dutch language, 19, 112 earthquake, 100 East Africa, 76 education, 39–41, 45, 49 Egypt, 76–77, 164–65 elekes, 158 Eliade, Mircea, 70 Eliot, T. S., 13 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 9, 30, 139; and expansion of the self, 35, 37– 38; and highways, 21; Nature, 89– 90; and surfaces, 17, 18; and Venice, 36; visions of, 89–90 emotion, 23 enemy, sought, 129 engineering, 39–40 English. See British, the Ensenada, Mexico, 56, 59, 69 Europe, 13, 35, 46, 113, 172, 182–83 failure, 82, 91–93, 96, 97, 98, 106 fathers. See parents Faulkner, William, 190; As I Lay Dying, 170–71 fear, 67, 69, 70 Fellini, Federico, 55, 136; Amarcord, 55–56, 63; Satyricon, 136 Fez, Morocco, 59, 77, 99, 114 >ction, 105 Fodors guides, 145 food, 109 Fox, George, 89 France, 27, 101, 138, 175–76 Franklin, Ben, 39 friends, 121–22 “Friend of the Fourth Decade, The” (Merrill), 165–66 Frommer’s guides, 145 Fussell, Paul, 58–59, 66, 79; Abroad: British Literary Travel between the Wars, 58 Gawai Antu, 68 Georgetown University, 64–65, 77 German language, 112 Germany, 112–13 Ghana, 21, 59, 73, 121–22, 163 Gilbert, Jack, 8, 30–31, 81, 142; as a stranger, 118–21, 122; The Great Fires, 30–31 Gilead (Robinson), 93 “Good Country People” (O’Connor), 111–12 Grand Tour, 38–39, 82, 145, 155 Great Fires, The (Gilbert), 30–31 Greece, 59–60, 81, 171–72; in Arnold, 42; in Gilbert, 30, 118–19; in Miller, 27, 48, 63–64, 65–66, 95, 103, 137, 138, 168 guides, 78; Baedeker’s, 145, 155–57; index • 205 guides (continued) binding of, 157; cheated by, 137, 149; clergymen as, 155; con?icted, 121–22; culture as, 146; Fodor’s, 145; Frommer’s, 145; idyllic, 145; to inside, 144; Let’s Go, 145; literature as, 145; Lonely Planet, 143, 145, 154, 157; Moon Handbooks, 145; Murray’s Guide, 155, 175; paid and unpaid, 121; as people, 145; Rough Guide, 145; suspended between, 157–58; spiritual, 159 guidebooks, 45, 66, 73, 143, 145, 154– 58, 175 Haarlem, The Netherlands, 120 Hansen, Eric, 67, 69 Havana, 129, 148, 149, 151, 158 healing, 43, 44, 45 Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 56, 68 Holy Land, 172 Holy Sepulcher Church, 169 home: broken, 20, 33, 60, 77, 106, 136; closed to strangers, 115; as a danger, 15, 134; exaggerated, 56; as homeless, 190; inaccessible, 119; insu;cient, 181; left in pilgrimage, 191; left in travel, 25, 27, 95, 98, 128, 170; loathed, 162, 165, 166; Netherlands as, 120, 160; protected , 115, 138; as valuable, 6, 13, 62, 115, 138, 169, 169–70; sex and, 153; to Whitman, 162–63 homeless, 170 hotels, 26, 162, 170–75, 189; as contamination , 172–73; as foreign, 172; and suspicion, 174–75; as untrustworthy , 171–72 Huichol, 90–91 humility, as tourist, 64 Iceland, 28 Iliad, 180 illness. See disease improvement, 78 incorrigibility, 153 India, 5, 31, 100, 108, 129 Innocents Abroad (Twain), 175 intimacy: through loss, 121; and strangers, 139 ire/osugbo, 149–50 Istanbul, 28 Jakarta, 15–16, 18, 48 Jamaica, 189–90 James, William, 89, 90, 96, 135, 162; The Varieties of Religious Experience, 89 jineteras, 152, 153–54 Jerusalem, 51, 57, 62, 120, 162, 164, 169, 170, 175, 181, 187, 188 Jesus, 74, 169. See also Mad Jesus Job, book of, 22 Johnson, Diane, 8, 13–14, 28–29...