On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > > [1] A quote from an earlier work, > > When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, > without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that > all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire > contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely > sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and > blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when? > > -Zorba the Greek
Actually I appear to be mistaken, Zorba the Greek wasn't an earlier work, it was ten years after Travels in China and Japan was published originally in Greek. I will have to revisit that theory about him quitting the abstract. Maybe a good time for me to read his autobiography :-)
