Part IVExperiencing the Journey

I cannot rest from travel: I will drinkLife to the lees: all times I have enjoy’dGreatly, have suffer’d greatly… that which we are, we are;One equal-temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.Alfred, Lord Tennyson in “Ulysses”

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, andif you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.Gandalf the Wizard in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings

You must travel a long and difficult road—a road fraught with peril, uh-huh,and pregnant with adventure. You shall see things wonderful to tell.… I cannotsay how long this road shall be. But fear not ...

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