title: In Motion: The Experience of Travel
author:  Tony Hiss 
description: In <em>In Motion: The Experience of Travel</em>, Tony Hiss argues that motion--so often a form of distraction and annoyance in our forward-flung lives--can, if approached in the right spirit, lead to heightened perception of both our surroundings and our own thoughts, whether traveling far abroad or just walking around our neighborhood. With that idea of travel (what he calls "Deep Travel") in mind, we asked him to think of some books that share the same sort of perception. The result is an expansive list of travel books in which the movement takes place as much in the brain as on a map: <br /><br /><strong>Tony Hiss on Ten Books and a Movie That Evoke "Deep Travel"<br /><br /></strong>Each of the following were valuable and enriching guides for me while I was writing <em>In Motion</em> and exploring Deep Travel--my expression for that revelatory sense of wonder and amazement that lets you discover something altogether new even in an old familiar place.<br /> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Time-Gifts-Constantinople-Holland-Classics/dp/1590171659"><em>A Time of Gifts</em></a> by Patrick Leigh Fermor: Thought by many to be the greatest travel writer of our time and by others to be the greatest travel writer of all times, Fermor&rsquo;s story of his walk as a teenager across the peaceful Europe that was about to be consumed by the Second World War is a haunting and poetic narrative of great power.</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mani-Travels-Southern-Peloponnese-Classics/dp/1590171888"><em>Mani</em></a> by Patrick Leigh Fermor: A post-war book by the same wonderful author, who this time seeks out the most inaccessible landscapes and villages of southernmost Greece. Beautifully observed and felt; among many treasures is Fermor&rsquo;s page-long, single-sentence description of the air in Greece.</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Head-Trip-Adventures-Wheel-Consciousness/dp/1400064848"><em>The Head Trip</em></a> by Jeff Warren: An exciting, entertaining and authoritative look at the modern science of consciousness, with an insightful chapter on the "SMR"--the sensorimotor rhythm of the brain, which is the physical manifestation of our wider awareness.</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Khyber-Marriage-Adventure-Travel-Classics/dp/1590480872"><em>My Khyber Marriage</em></a> by Morag Murray Abdullah: An unknown classic. Morag Murray was a conventional young Scottish woman who married an Afghan prince during the First World War and left her sheltered life behind forever. A fascinating look at the transformative power of unexpected circumstances.</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Life-Other-Dimension-Time/dp/0385192487"><em>The Dance of Life</em></a> by Edward T. Hall: A favorite author of mine, who spent a lifetime closely observing human behavior. In this book, this brilliant sociologist shows how time can extend indefinitely, bringing us into a longer "now."</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Mountain-Thomas-Mann/dp/0679772871"><em>The Magic Mountain</em></a> by Thomas Mann: One of the most celebrated novels of the 20th century. Although his subject is the disappearance of pre-First World War Europe, Mann, the Nobel Prize winner, pleads with his readers to keep "our sense of time" awake so that none of us will not have to live through "paltry, bare, featherweight years."</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sorcerers-Apprentice-Tahir-Shah/dp/1559706260"><em>Sorcerer&rsquo;s Apprentice</em></a> by Tahir Shah: Rollicking and exuberant and full of insight, Shah recounts his year as a student to an Indian magician, a mysterious and forbidding man who believed in always keeping one eye on the detail, and the other on "the entire picture."</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ceremonial-Time-Fifteen-Thousand-Square/dp/0201149370"><em>Ceremonial Time</em></a> by John Hanson Mitchell: Without leaving his small town outside of Boston, Mitchell is able to resurrect the 15,000-year-old reality of the place, as it emerged from glacial times and became a beloved home to Native Americans. Mitchell moves through only a single square mile of space but glides back and forth through the millennia--and it's a magical journey.</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Afghanistan-Louis-Palmer/dp/0863040578"><em>Adventures in Afghanistan</em></a> by Louis Palmer: Sixty years after Morag Murray, Palmer visits war-torn Afghanistan with the freedom fighters, and visits remote monasteries, hidden palaces, healing springs, and other startling treasures that seem like real-life continuations of the Arabian Nights.</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Encountering-World-Toward-Ecological-Psychology/dp/0195073010"><em>Encountering the World</em></a> by Edward S. Reed: A totally original synthesis of modern psychology and philosophy. Reed, who died much too young at age 42, convincingly places awareness at the center of all mental and cognitive ability. A masterpiece.</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Know-Where-Going-Criterion-Collection/dp/B00004XQMY"><em>I Know Where I&rsquo;m Going!</em></a>, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: A lovely movie about a headstrong young woman (a marvelous Wendy Hiller) on her way to marry the wrong man. Suddenly stranded on a Scottish island, she awakens to everything she&rsquo;s been missing and finds her true love and, more importantly, her true self.</li> </ul>
zlib_text: Dynamic Truth
  Marc Massoglia
  Chestertowne Press
   
  
  Dynamic Truth
  Marc Massoglia
  Chestertowne Press
  
  Dynamic 
  Truth 
  © 
  2020 
  Marc
  Massoglia
  All Rights Reserved
  V 1
  This is a work of fiction. Names,
  characters, businesses, places, events,
  and incidents are either products of the
  author’s imagination or used in a
  fictitious manner. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, or actual
  events is purely coincidental.
  Cover Design by Marc Massoglia
  
  Dedication
  This book is dedicated to my
  parents, Peter and Anita Massoglia.
  Thank you for always encouraging my
  creativity. I love you.
  
  Dynamic Truth
  
  Prologue
  A random act of kindness can bite you
  in the ass.
  Rattle, rattle, whump!
  “Come on, man! Hold the goddamn
  steering wheel straight!” yelled the big
  black dude in the row behind me.
  Coastal Airlines Flight 657 had
  reached its cruising altitude on the short
  hop from Miami to St. Augustine when
  the plane started to tremble and quiver in
  
  a way that even got my well-traveled
  attention… 