Feel free to wander through the alleys and avenues of this paragraph.
In The Practice of Everyday Life, de Certeau refers to “the long poem of walking” as a series of rhetorical strategies expressed in physical space: at street level the body turns, detours and returns in the same way a phrase manifests, inverts and completes itself on the printed page. In this sense walking is at once lyrical and vividly metaphorical: we leap ahead, retrace our steps, omit passages, take shortcuts, lose ourselves, experience surprise and become open to discovery. In short, we walk in the same way we read — and for that matter, write.
From Amy Lavender Harris, Imagining Toronto.
And so for day 902
02.06.2009