“The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.”
“Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.”
“Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties and connections?”
“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
“Australians are descended from a boatload of English convicts, right? So two hundred years in isolation at the bottom of the planet is plenty of time for the language to evolve into some sort of double-speak prison slang.”