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what walking means in cultural history: | what walking means in cultural history: | ||
- | + | * Homeric bards, old wanderers for whom walking was a part of poetry | |
- | * Homeric bards, old wanderers for whom walking was a part of poetry | + | * the Peripatetic philiosophers who taught and discoured while walking back and forth in a Stoa |
- | | + | * Collonade; the walking poets of the Hellenistic world, who would leave a little poem behind them them at a brook or under a shade tree where other walkers from town to town would find them, extolling the shade of the tree, the clarity and coolness of the water in the brook, |
- | | + | * The Sky- walking or Cloud-walking Taoist poets and ages, who would high uo in the mountain peaks in cloud banks |
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* The Buddhist walking meditation, in which excruciating slowness first the path then the heel of each foot gloms the ground. | * The Buddhist walking meditation, in which excruciating slowness first the path then the heel of each foot gloms the ground. |