....... we live only through other lives that touch us and that to live in this way at all requires more care then most people are preapared to give. For untimately there is nothing more astonishing, more fraught with mystery, then the mutual responses that occurs across so many obstacles of time, of place, of background, and of the events that form us. When I have experienced it, it has seemed like the only security I have known...... I have tried my hardest to resist change. I cannot move around the world on a string of acquaintances, and the something more that I need ties me more closely to the places and the people where I find it.
(THE HIGH VALLEY, Kenneth E. Read)
29/12/1917- 13/11/1995
The author was an anthropologist and the book is an autobiographicall account of 2 years spent living in Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea in the early 1950s.
The quote is at the end of a chapter about him just witnessing the final act of a bride price exchange for a small girl not yet a woman and how he didnt realise how much impact that she had on him.
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