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travelling was almost like conversing with men of other
centuries, a point of view quite unknown before his time. For
those who cherish such quaint experience, it is necessary today
to go back very many centuries by the art and archaeology
route. Professor Boorstin seems unhappy that so many
Americans travel so much and are changed by it so little. He
feels that the entire travel experience has become “diluted,
contrived, prefabricated.” He is not concerned to find out why
the photograph has done this to us. But in the same way
intelligent people in the past always deplored the way in which
the book had become a substitute for inquiry, conversation,
and reflection, and never troubled to reflect on the nature of
the printed book. The book reader has always tended to be
passive, because that is the best way to read. Today, the
traveller has become passive. Given travellers cheques, a
passport, and a toothbrush, the world is your oyster. The