I was reading, yesterday evening, a book of eulogies. I came across these words in the eulogy of the magnificent travel writer Freya Stark, given by Colin Thubron.
“Some ten years ago I remember Freya Stark wondering what attributes people might carry with them into the afterlife. Would we take our compassion, she wondered, would we take our sense of justice, would be take our courage? She entertained only vague ideas about the hereafter, she said, since it would be a poor secret which would yield itself up to any human imagination…
She once wrote that “for every journey, imagination only is needed – and an awareness of the rim beyond which the world is made new. For if one were asked which, of all sights in nature, is the most lastingly satisfying, would one not choose the horizon?”"
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