Category: Travel
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Venice in August
Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959, tr. Ryan Bloom, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010, p. 163: Venice in August and the swarms of tourists, who flock to St. Mark's Square at the same time as the pigeons, peck at impressions, and give themselves vacations and ugliness. Related articles Remembering Albert Camus Of Socialism, Violets, and Asphalt Camus…
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BEATific October Again
And no better way to kick off Kerouac month than with 'sweet gone Jack' reading from "October in Railroad Earth" from Lonesome Traveler, 1960. Steve Allen provides the wonderful piano accompaniment. I have the Grove Press Black Cat 1970 paperback edition. Bought it on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, 12 April 1973. I was travelling…
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The Ghost Town Of Dunmovin, California
Dunmovin is a California ghost town, now little more than a wide spot in the road on U. S. 395, one of my favorite highways. I have driven past it many a time, but never stopped to explore, not that there is much there to explore. An Internet search turned up an interesting post, dated…
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Homo Viator
We are not at home in this world, a fact more likely to be revealed by travelling than by staying home.
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Travel Disruptive, but Good for the Soul
For me, travel is disruptive and desolating. A little desolation, however, is good for the soul, whose tendency is to sink into complacency. Daheim, empfindet man nicht so sehr die Unheimlichkeit des Seins. Travel knocks me out of my natural orbit, out of the familiar with its gauzy filters, into the strangeness of things. Even…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Travel, Travail, Transition
Johnny Cash, I've Been Everywhere, man, crossed the deserts bare, man/I've breathed the mountain air, man/Of travel I've had my share, man/I've been everywhere.Pete Seeger, Passing Through. "Yankee, Russian, white or tan, Lord a man is just a man/We're all brothers and we're only passing through."Soggy Mountain Boys, I am a Man of Constant SorrowPeter,…
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The Secret of Travelling
Freya Stark, Beyond Euphrates, p. 246: The secret of travelling is to leave one's past behind, and to keep a mind a little blank and empty for the new to be received.
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Three Reasons to Stay Home
These days I have money to travel, time, and opportunities. In close communion with my 'inner Kantian,' however, I resist the blandishments and with them the vexations of spatial translation. By my present count, there are three chief reasons to keep to my Southwestern Koenigsberg, the Emersonian, the Pascalian, and the Vallicellan. The first is that travel…
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His Inner Kantian
Becoming increasingly in touch with his 'inner Kantian,' he travelled less and less as the years rolled on. He decided he had seen enough phenomena, and that seeing more would not bring him closer to any noumena.
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Kerouac October Quotation #11: For the Sake of Absolute Freedom
It's October 11th today, Columbus Day. This is a month to be savored day by day, hour by hour. To aid in the savoring, here is today's Kerouac quotation, from "The Vanishing American Hobo" in Lonesome Traveler, p. 173 of the 1970 Black Cat edition. (Purchased my copy in a shop on Bourbon Street in…
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Dunmovin and a Blogger’s Final Post
Dunmovin is a California ghost town, now little more than a wide spot in the road on U. S. 395, one of my favorite highways. I have driven past it many a time, but never stopped to explore, not that there is much there to explore. But I thought of it today, did a search…