BLIND MAN'S TRAVELOGUE, DEAD MAN'S DIARY

[blind man]

I asked Marco Polo how he spent those long years without a family or wife. He said ‘when a woman's husband leaves her to go on a journey of infinite time, as soon as he has left, she takes another husband, and this she is fully entitled to do by local usage. And the men, wherever they go, take wives in the same way’ .Dead man, you know then he laughed and I made my answer in my mind. A lone man travelling oceans, deserts, mountains, seas had answered in such an intelligent way.

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