'That dumbshit map. I'd been seduced by it. Seduced by its possibilities. That map had brought me here ..That map had been a serious mistake' The map in question is of Australia, stumbled across in a second-hand bookshop by American journalist...
'It's the way things work, isn't it? Chance, happenstance.and choice. Things might happen accidentally..but then we make choices. That's what we have to live with; not the accident, the fluke - but the choices we make in the wake of it....