The subjectivity inherent in travel is aptly captured in the range of styles used by different writers. For Hemingway, writing eighty years ago, the experience of travel—regardless of how momentous—was rendered in (i) observations, a style many of today’s writers studiously (ii). Then there is travel writer Pico Iyer, for whom a simple stroll through an airport can beget sentences bursting forth with as many semicolons as revelations. Who thought the terminal could be so (iii)? Surely not many writers today.
Blank (i)
prosaic
aphoristic
sardonic
Blank (ii)
avoid
lampoon
cultivate
Blank (iii)
irrevocably wrenching
wildly unpredictable
endlessly fascinating
