Themes
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
— Robert Louis Stevenson · El Dorado
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The promise of a destination can matter as much as reaching it. That final turn towards labour keeps the thought from becoming a daydream: hope still asks you to put in the work.
- El Dorado — read the essayEl Dorado, final paragraph; transcription of the 1897 Chatto & Windus editionReference checked
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