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More playful use of language: “This was her version of Decartes’ cogito: I walk therefore I am. She celebrated the metaphysical rhythm of the pedestrian, the iamb of the ‘I am,’ the beat of the placed and lifted foot.
— Oct 21, 2025 02:54PM
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The author’s descriptions of his travels and the people he encounters are beautiful, but also
impenetrable at times. Here’s a characteristically beguiling line: “Steve’s affection for the boulder and its world was cold and hard and tender, a longing simultaneously for distance and for enclosure: a paradox understandable to anyone who has ever been in a certain kind of love.”
— Oct 20, 2025 05:42PM
impenetrable at times. Here’s a characteristically beguiling line: “Steve’s affection for the boulder and its world was cold and hard and tender, a longing simultaneously for distance and for enclosure: a paradox understandable to anyone who has ever been in a certain kind of love.”
