Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interiors.
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The whole strategy of that war—its speed, its colossal censorship, its reliance on high-tech weaponry, its very limited ground combat—was organized to defeat opposition at home by limiting information and U.S. casualties,
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Gulf War
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Has something been lost when the relationship between our muscles and our world vanishes, when the water is managed by one machine and the muscles by another in two unconnected processes?
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I waited a long time for this kind of writing!
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It too could be called Calvinist technology, in that it provides accurate numerical assessments of the speed, “distance” covered, and even heart rate, and it eliminates the unpredictable and unforeseeable