"The explorer seeks the undiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history, the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity. The genuine traveler is, or used to be, in the middle between the two extremes. If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates, retaining all he can of the excitement of the unpredictable attaching to exploration and fusing with the pleasure of knowing where one is belonging to tourism. ~"
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Paul Fussell in: Kimberley J. Healey The Modernist Traveler: French Detours, 1900-1930, U of Nebraska Press, 2003, p. 22
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