“Tibet is a special case. Tibet was deliberately set aside by the Empire as free and neutral territory, a Switzerland for the spirit where there is no extradition, and Alp-Himalayas to draw the soul upward, and danger rare enough to tolerate.”

—  Thomas Pynchon , book Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

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