![]() ![]() ![]() So I was drawn to the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, where players create imaginary personas and sally forth into mutually conceived worlds of swords and sorcery. Often, when I read, I felt like the character I was reading about. I also never really understood the boundary between the roles of character and reader. For me, Charlotte's Web was as profound a meditation on mortality as The Death of Ivan Ilyich. But I never really understood the boundaries between genres. I'm constantly flirting with other cities.Īs a kid I read widely: comics, science fiction, news magazines, children's books, atlases, "literature". ![]() I've had a lifelong love affair with Lahore, but it's been far from monogamous. In Istanbul to give a lecture last week, I wasn't dreaming of the next meal or next sight. When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist. ![]()
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