- Time of past OR future Camino
- CdS 2012, CdN 2013, Shikoku 2015, CP 2016.
When walking a Camino I usually make a few new friends whom I often seem to know better than many of my old friends back home. While reading "A Gentleman in Moscow" (altogether excellent) the author, Amor Towles, makes an observation that especially resonated with the pilgrim me.
“Some might wonder that the two men should consider themselves to be old friends having known each other for four years; but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time. These two would have felt like old friends had they met just hours before. To some degree, this was because they were kindred spirits - finding ample evidence for laughter in the midst of effortless conversation. … Though the Count and the American had been born ten years and four thousand miles apart, they had more in common with each other than they had with the majority of their own countrymen." (p 333).
“Some might wonder that the two men should consider themselves to be old friends having known each other for four years; but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time. These two would have felt like old friends had they met just hours before. To some degree, this was because they were kindred spirits - finding ample evidence for laughter in the midst of effortless conversation. … Though the Count and the American had been born ten years and four thousand miles apart, they had more in common with each other than they had with the majority of their own countrymen." (p 333).