The sky is always there above you. Endurance is about holding out when the gods appear to have retreated.

wanderer, communed with the Essence. Walking was a ceremony of mystic union, the walker being co-present with the Presence, curled up in the pure bosom of a maternal Nature. In both Rousseau and Wordsworth we find walking celebrated as testimony to presence and mystical fusion.

The crowd is the experience of a commoditized future in formation. Tossed about and dragged along by it, the individual is reduced to being a mere product offered up to anonymous tides.

The hastening passer-by combines velocity of the body with degradation of the intellect. He wants only to go fast and his mind is empty, preoccupied with slipping through the interstices. The

The common experience of preceding centuries had been surprise at the sight of a stranger in town, an unknown face. Where’s he from, what’s he up to? Now, anonymity was the norm. The shock would be to recognize someone.

capitalism designated the moment when the concept of merchandise extended beyond industrial products, to include art works and people. The mercantilization of the world: everything becomes a consumer product, everything is bought and sold, available on the great market of endless demand. The reign of generalized prostitution, of selling, and sellin

the great industrial cities, those people on the way to or from work, going to business meetings, rushing to deliver a package or get to a rendezvous, were representatives of the new civilization. This crowd was hostile, hostile to all its members. Everyone was in a hurry and everyone else was in their way. The crowd transformed the other instantly

Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible.

It was written, unchangeable. When you are on foot, to arrive you must walk. Will as destiny.