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People walk and exercise through Paseo de la Castellana street during the allowed timetable on May 9, 2020 in Madrid, Spain.Walking was fundamental to William Wordsworth’s writing process – he would think and compose as he strode along – and he covered a lot of ground. According to an estimate by contemporary Thomas de Quincey, the Romantic poet walked close to 290,000 kilometres over the course of his life.
Not just a chronicler of walking, Wordsworth helped launch a generations-long tradition of British rambling and pedestrian stroppiness. And the poet himself was no stranger to asserting his right to walk., Rebecca Solnit describes a memorable scene in which Wordsworth, then 66, was dining at a castle in Cumbria. The local lord complained that a wall on his land had been taken down and vowed to have the man responsible whipped.
More than 300 pages later – after an epic series of misfortune and mistakes – Gervaise is reduced to walking a shabby street, meekly attempting to sell herself. Her route on this day stretches between ruined abattoirs and a hospital, “from the bloody courtyards where beasts were struck down to the dimly lit wards where death stiffened you in a communal shroud.”
“These hours of solitude and meditation are the only ones in the day when I am completely myself,” he wrote. “When I reach places where there is no trace of men I breathe freely.”
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