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“Sun and wind and beat of sea,
Great lands stretching endlessly.
Where be the bonds to bind the free?
All the world was made for me.”
“The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.”
-Richard Halliburton, Royal Road to Romance
At the onset of the story, Halliburton explains the impetus behind his journey by reciting Dorian Grey’s ominous warning:
“Realize
your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days,
listening to the tedious, or giving your life away to the ignorant and
the common. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age.
“Live ” live the wonderful life that is in you. Be afraid of nothing.
There is such a little time that your youth will last- such a little
time.”
“The romantic- that
was what I wanted. I hungered for the romance of the sea, and foreign
ports, and foreign smiles. I wanted to follow the prow of a ship, any
ship, and sail away, perhaps to China, perhaps to Spain, perhaps to the
South Sea Isles, there to do nothing all day but lie on a surf-swept
beach and fling monkeys at the coconuts.
“Let those who wish
have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in
whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost
corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.”
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