I just found out that I have been allocated to the Mobile 2 Tutorial, with Jane Foster. The theme is 'The Traveling Circus' and it has reminded of a book that I read recently called "The Art of Travel" by Alain de Botton. He writes a lot about the act of traveling and its psychological effects. One of my favourite quotes is:
" Few seconds in life are more releasing than those in which a plane ascends to the sky ... accompanied by the controlled rage of engines we rise fluently into the atmosphere and an immense horizon opens up across which we can wander without impediment ... There is a psychological pleasure in this take-off too, for the swiftness of the plane's asent is an exemplar symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives; to imagine that we too might one day surge about much that now looms over us. "
I realise this may not have much to do with anything right now, but I just wanted to get this out of my system before the tutorial, and I find out what "The Traveling Circus" might
really mean.
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