Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@LavignePhd @holdengraber On his deathbed, Bruce Chatwin gave Werner Herzog his backpack. Here, Chatwin on walking, from 'A Space Without A Goal', the Electronic Frontier Foundation's consciousness archive, January 1996. @eff world3.scribble.com/world3/meme1/space/Walk_on_Walk_on.html

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Quoted by@StoopToRise @EsmeLKPartridge Solvitur ambulando. 'It is solved by walking.' To this day, among Sufis, 'siyahat' or 'errance' - the action or rhythm of walking - is used with breath as a technique for dissolving the attachments of the world. ?s=20Quoted by@Sonya__Dunne @CalMorgan Chatwin and Herzog together, played a central role awakening me to the ontology of walking. Stateside, not long thereafter, I gave it all away and literally walked, for some 2-3 years, without money or possessions. A mendicant media ecologist, walking and talking.