Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles with Moroccan storyteller
Mohammed Mrabet on
a recent visit in Tangier.

The Spider's House (1955) a passage from The Song of the Swallow in The Thousand and One Nights:

"To my way of thinking, there is nothing more delightful than to be a stranger. And so I mingle with human beings, because they are not of my kind, and to be a stranger among them."

Image from Mary Ellen Mark