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“One demonstration of this leisureliness, Benjamin goes on to say, was the fashion, around 1840, for taking turtles for walks in the arcades. “The flâneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them. If they had their way, progress would have been obliged to accommodate itself to this pace.”

I've been wanting to read this book while on a multi day walk. Starting it this evening after walking the first section of Scotland's West Highland away.