03.25.04
Walking with everything
I seem not to be doing that thing with links much at the moment, so time to catch up with some of the outside world.
Andy, fresh from provoking mass confessions to distract the Times (and taking paranoid readings in his stride), is in today’s Guardian talking about the pre-election protests in Spain.
While Andy was with the crowds in the middle of a terrible event, the rest of us seem to be getting by with walking amongst the imaginary.
Up in the Deep North it is walking with angels.
Kevan, meanwhile, is walking among zombies, and the things folk are remembering walking in a computer game version of the Barbican. I remember that too (the game, not the zombies).
Me, I’m toying with a basic distinction used for walking in crowds: people with earphones versus people without. The former require more defensive walking, of course. The latter respond politely to a sharp, well-timed, scrape of the shoe just before the overtaking point.
Can you tell I’m one of those aggressively fast walkers? Good.
moosifer jones' grouch said,
March 26, 2004 at 2:04 pm
grouching along pavements
I would dearly love some signs that, as a pedestrian, I could hold up with great speed - rather like Wylie Coyote when he realises just what he has done to himself.
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Walk in a straight line!!
That’ll be my third Wylie Coyote sign, I think.