"I kept coming back to this route for respite from my work and for my work too, because thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and thinking is hard to do. It’s best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking."

Rebecca Solnit, from the opening pages of Wanderlust: A History of Walking.

Notes, December 26, 2010

"Backward, gazing at a point in the distance, but moving away from it, walking straight toward the unknown."

The best way to walk? From Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Decectives.

Notes, June 3, 2010