The rare and divine Two Headed Happy Beast is in Portland, Maine for the weekend, museuming, looting L. L. Bean and people watching over sushi and Proseco -- you know, creating fodder for future Tell-Me-A-Stories.
In the meantime, here are some pics, poetry and quotes about walks.
From Sherman Alexie’s magnificent poem Tourists:
1. James DeanFrom Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening:
walks everywhere now. He's afraid of fast cars
and has walked this far, arriving
suddenly on the reservation, in search
of the Indian woman of his dreams.
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
― Steven Wright
I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.
― Noël Coward
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.
― Jane Austen, Persuasion
