A SMALL PLACE

A Smalle Place
Jamaica Kincade
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2000)
ISBN-10:0374527075/ISBN-13:978-0374527075

旅行者は、時に醜い存在です。"観光"や"旅行"は新しい発見と出会いだけでなく、日々の現実からの逃避であり、気づかぬうちに自分のことだけしか考えていない自己満足に陥る危険性が大いにあります。自己満足の中にも、現地への敬意と尊敬の念は忘れずにありたいです。

A tourist is an ugly human being. . . . Every native would like to find a way out, every native would like a rest, every native would like a tour. . . . [W]hen the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they envy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself (14-19).