"It is one of the seductions of travel that it allows us to enjoy the extremes of human emotion and experience in the knowledge that next morning we shall wake in a different place, having left them behind. In the normal way of things, sex, death and religion may be fascinating but they are also embroiling; their social contest imposes responsibilities and requirements. On the tourist they have no lasting claim; tomorrow will be another scene. The detachment allows them to become objects of the spectacle, along with everything else."

-Ian Littlewood, Sultry Climates (2001)