Terminal Transit

"If you were asked to take a Martian to visit a single place that captures all the themes running through the modern world-from our faith in technology to our destruction of nature, from our interconnectedness to our romanticising of travel- then you would almost certainly have to head to an airport. Airports, in all their turmoil, interest and beauty, are the imaginative centres of our civilisation." Reproduced from 'A week at the Airport'. © Alain de Botton by kind permission of United Agents Ltd.