The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”
“At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.”