Ours is the century of enforced travel. . . of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
Source: Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, in Expressen (Stockholm, 3 Nov. 1990; repr. in Keeping a Rendezvous, 1992).
-- John Berger, (Nov 5 1926-2017), English painter, teacher, art critic; He began his career as a painter and teacher of drawing; became art critic for the Tribune, and New Statesman.