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two_legged_research [2021-10-14 09:47] cockytwo_legged_research [2021-10-14 09:48] cocky
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 <fc #800000> The Lovers, The Great Wall Walk, Marina Abramovic and Ulay</fc> <fc #800000> The Lovers, The Great Wall Walk, Marina Abramovic and Ulay</fc>
-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 philosophers who taught and discoursed while walking back and forth in a Stoa   * the Peripatetic philosophers who taught and discoursed while walking back and forth in a Stoa
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    * the Anabasis, the great walk of the Greek soldiers trapped in Persia under Xenophon    * the Anabasis, the great walk of the Greek soldiers trapped in Persia under Xenophon
   * the walk to the end of the world that Alexander the Great wept from inability to complete   * the walk to the end of the world that Alexander the Great wept from inability to complete
- * the wandering scholars and troubadours of the European Middle Ages +  * the wandering scholars and troubadours of the European Middle Ages 
- * Mao's Long March and Gandhi's Walk to the Sea +  * Mao's Long March and Gandhi's Walk to the Sea 
-* the man who ritually walked the length, from end to end, of every street in Mahattan. http://www.manhattanwalkblog.com/+  * the man who ritually walked the length, from end to end, of every street in Mahattan. http://www.manhattanwalkblog.com/
 and so on and so on
 walking just as a motion, as process, as a going on in life, a continuum, a mode of self expression or discovery or exploration, a means of bonding with the landscape, or being at a raw level in the environment, like the Indian sadhus with their vowed walks, their walked vows.  walking just as a motion, as process, as a going on in life, a continuum, a mode of self expression or discovery or exploration, a means of bonding with the landscape, or being at a raw level in the environment, like the Indian sadhus with their vowed walks, their walked vows. 
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