He had traveled all over Europe, proving that words could take you to places so glorious and so far from the place you came from that your own kin could only gape in wonder and envy.

• 他足迹遍及欧洲各地，这证明以文字为媒，能把一个人从出生的地方，带到如此荣耀和如此遥远的地方，而令亲戚们又羡慕又妒忌。