Haruki Murakami likes moving because it resets one’s life, and gets excited when students transfer in and out of his class (村上朝日集). Tail recursion?

Haruki Murakami and his wife decides to not see people they don’t want to see (in his essay about running).

Rentrer vs retourner

I’m from everywhere I’ve ever been (not performing the tail-call optimization) or from nowhere (performing the tail-call optimization)

Hierarchies of delimited continuations and afterlives: “computational eschatology”?

Near the end of “Happy Together”, the voiceover says, I know why he has the energy to travel: it’s because he has a place that he knows he can return to, where people await him, to call home.

Jason Bourne’s passports

André Aciman’s memoir and essays

“Nostalgia is the ache to return, to come home; nostophobia, the fear of returning; nostomania, the obsession with going back; nostography, writing about return.”

Family histories: Cynthia’s mother’s side with a long, well-documented history in America, and her father’s coming from Sicily at the age of 18 (then suffering discrimination, then insisting that he was American, not Italian (American)).

Enemies are human (Walter’s grandfather)

Territorial disputes: Taiwan/Japan (釣魚台是你們的，不過尖閣諸島是我們的 “Diaoyutai is yours but Senkaku is ours” http://blog.pixnet.net/cwyuni/post/19351129), Canada/Denmark (Dror told me), Russia/Japan (Oleg told me). Territorial non-disputes: Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog (http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/baarle.htm).

US passport “birth place” rules (e.g., Danzig becomes Gdansk) http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/94675.pdf http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86780.pdf

World passport and world government: taxation without representation today throughout the globalized world?

Queen and passport: http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page4871.asp When travelling overseas, The Queen does not require a British passport.

The Henley Visa Restrictions Index The top rank is held by Finland, Denmark and the United States, with a score of 130 each (a score of 130 means that a citizen of, say, Finland, may enter 130 countries and territories without a visa). They are followed by other European nations and Japan. Canada and New Zealand are joint 6 th together with Luxembourg and Austria. Singapore (8 th) ranks before Malaysia, which is ranked 9 th together with Iceland, Greece and Australia. Further down the scale one will find Turkey (46 th), Russia (62 nd, together with the United Arab Emirates), India (71 st), and China (78 th). Not surprisingly, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan score lowest, i.e. their citizens have the least travel freedom.

Always Coming Home and Solitude by Ursula K Le Guin

“Movement” and “scope taking” in linguistics

Proust (very beginning of Chapter 1; very end of Chapter 2)

Chinatowns are relics of the past and perhaps more like the homes we came from than the current state of these homes, much as astronomers observe distant stars to learn how the universe began

“Questions of Travel”, a poem by Elizabeth Bishop http://plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=3012 http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/travel.htm “Should we have stayed at home, wherever that may be?”