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The Call to Adventure: Renouncing Domesticity

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Have a little read: ... The Call to Adventure: Renouncing Domesticity Not long after the Industrial Revolution, the average standard of life evolved dramatically. Not only was it a turning point in world history, urbanization left an indelible imprint on the human consciousness. One outcome of this change would be a sense of disorientation and a transcendental longing for an idyllic pastoral world that Bruce Chatwin expresses in his novel, The Songlines. In an excerpt from pages 16-17 of the book, the narrator reveals the origins of his yearning for the fantastic to his comrade Arkady, detailing his "job as an 'expert' on modern painting with a well-known firm." He describes "[waking] up blind" one fateful morning while experiencing an ineffable urge to visit Africa only to have his mysterious blindness dissipate on his way to the airport. In a way, it can be said that this 'blindness', both literal and figurative, is his profound

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