• Kapuscinski, Ryszard (2007) Travels with Herodotus, Penguin Books.

  "The Upanishads are philosphical songs dating back three thousands years, but still vibrant, still present in India's spiritual life. When I realized this, and thought about the small boy greeting the morning star with stanzas from the Upanishads, I doubted whether I could ever comprehend a country in which children start the day singing verses of philosophy" (42).

  "Whereas I had the urge to submit to such seductions, I also remained attracted to what lay beyond the confines of their respective worlds -- I was tempted by people still unmet, roads yet untraveled, skies yet unseen. The desire to cross the border, to look at what is beyond it, stirred in me still." (71).

• Coetzee, J.M. (1987) Foe, Viking Penguin Inc.

  "In a world of chance, is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives" (30).

  "His visits to the Bluff belonged to a practice of losing himself in the contemplation of the wastes of water and sky" (38).

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