My name means a yellow-feathered songbird. To the land beyond!

The person who finds his homeland sweet is a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign place. 
                                                                                                       Hugh of Saint Victor

...the constitution and early aims of comparative literature were to get a perspective beyond one’s own nation, to see some sort of whole instead of the defensive little patch offered by one’s own culture, literature, and history.                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                           Edward Said

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