but the truth is there's no escaping the call of the whistle and steam.

[intrikate88]

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

--Carson McCullers

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[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

I think that emotion kind of defines my life (and utterly my taste in music: all my favorite songs are wanderlust type songs lol). I may need to read more Carson McCullers: she's one of those Georgia authors I have a conflicted relationship with. She wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter which has an awesome title even if I don't know what it's about. :P