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Paul Theroux on the merits of travel and the paradoxes of the global economy

Deviate

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How Do You Frame a Story About Two Brothers in Conflict?

I wanted to take this as a classic narrative of sibling rivalry. It's about a brother who stays and a brother who goes. In my book, the brother who goes away is the more well-adjusted one. So it's also about, I suppose, this Jungian notion of individuation.

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