ABSTRACT

What is tradition? A higher authority which one obeys, not because it commands what is useful to us, but because it commands.

. . . it’s always too late for truth, I thought. Jean Rhys3

Travel, migration and movement invariably bring us up against the limits of our inheritance. We may choose to withdraw from this impact and only select a confirmation of our initial views. In this case whatever lies on the other side remains in the shadows, in obscurity. We could, however, opt to slacken control, to let ourselves go, and respond to the challenge of a world that is more extensive than the one we have been accustomed to inhabiting.