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In his book Footsteps (1985), Richard Holmes compared the biographer's act to 'a kind of pursuit, a tracking of the physical trail of someone's path through the past'. What Holmes realized in the course of his own pursuits was that the footstepping biographer never actually reached his subject; only encountered at best the second-order suggestions of their earlier presence: glimpses of afterglow, retinal ghosts, psychic gossamer. 'You would never catch them,' cautioned Holmes, 'no, you would nev
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― The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
― The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
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The wolf is made he way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.
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― The Crossing
― The Crossing
A place to track all my reading progress, books and reviews, in my own personal reading room.
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