gin the rectilinear trip is much more
serious.
A rectilinear trip?
Yes. A rectilinear trip, just as it is
written because of all the different
types of trips there are two that are
fundamental; the circular and the
rectilinear.
Claudio Magris says in his book,
Infinite Travelling, that "the trip is a
continuous preamble, a prelude to
something that, is always to come
and always around the corner; depart
and stop, disarm the luggage and
reassemble".
One learns, while travelling, that
there are 'things' that no longer make
sense to be taken with you. Your
luggage becomes lighter and lighter,
until it’s reduced to a minimum in
relation to the existential. Ideal in
reducing unnecessary ballast.
To do and to undo, and in my case
to describe the landscape as I am
crossing it, is fleeting and diffused.
And changes as we all change. The
trip always starts again, always
begins again. It reboots. It is the
condition of the human being, and of
life, because life is nothing else than
that; a journey that only ceases when
one dies. An odyssey through time
(life); a return to the origin (previous
unborn state), with the possibility
going across the world.
In the case of the circular trip, you
return home, even to a house that is
no longer the same, as the traveller is
often no longer the same.
It always happens to me. I return
to my origins, Argentina, and nothing
is the same anymore, nor am I.
The same thing happens with the
country that adopted me after so
many years, Mexico, and with that
other country, that is more than a
country to me, it is winter, it is Cana-
da. I come back, and I belong, but I
don’t belong there. Like Ulysses who
returned to Ithaca, to an Ithaca that
would not be such if he had not aban-
doned her to go to war in Troy.
The other type of trip, the rectilin-
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