CHOBE, BOTSWANA: “Vanity
of vanities; all is vanity,” observed Mr. Turtle. “My eyes and ears are never
satisfied; yet there will be no remembrance when my days are past. Yet I have
given my heart in this life to seek out wisdom; to know madness and folly in
kind. I have traveled far and wide, from Norway’s fjords to South Africa’s Cape
of Good Hope, from Morocco’s Sahara Desert to Japan’s Mount Fuji. I have seen poverty
and riches, wisdom and stupidity, cruelty and kindness, and all of the works
that are done under the sun, and have concluded that my actions are the only
reality and that they too are but vanity grasping for the wind, searching for a
judge. Vanity of vanities."
