Dale Nelson Wrote:
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> I mentioned this great practitioner of "tramping"
> some months ago. I've read a couple of his books
> and am well into a third, A Vagabond in the
> Caucasus. There is a book on Graham that you can
> download at no cost:
>
> [
www.openbookpublishers.com]
>
> The index will lead you to several references to
> Blackwood.
>
> I do recommend Graham. What a witness of a bygone
> world he is, though he died as recently as 1975,
> not quite reaching age 91 -- even older than the
> long-lived Blackwood (died at 82) and Arthur
> Machen (died aged 84). I perceive a shared
> responsiveness to the natural world walked in,
> though Graham was the most footloose of the
> three.
>
> Wasn't someone here going to read Blackwood's
> Centaur, set, I believe, in the Caucasus? If so
> -- what're your thoughts?
That would be me, Dale.
I am in the middle of James Holland's
Normandy '44.
>
> ----Humans are not made to sit at computer
> terminals or travel by aeroplane; destiny intended
> something different for us. For too long now we
> have been estranged from the essential, which is
> the nomadic life: travelling on foot. A
> distinction must be made between hiking and
> travelling on foot. In today’s society –
> though it would be ridiculous to advocate
> travelling on foot for everyone to every possible
> destination – I personally would rather do the
> existentially essential things in my life on foot.
> If you live in England and your girlfriend is in
> Sicily, and it is clear that you want to marry
> her, then you should walk to Sicily to propose.
> For these things travel by car or aeroplane is not
> the right thing. The volume and depth and
> intensity of the world is something that only
> those on foot will ever experience.
>
> Werner Herzog----
>
> M. R. James had his walking tours in Denmark and
> elsewhere, didn't he? Who are the other walkers
> and "tramps" of our genres?
>
> [
archive.org]
> rich/page/n7/mode/2up
>
> [
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> /page/n11/mode/2up
--Sawfish
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