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The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Thomas, says Macfarlane, experienced “the tension between roaming and homing”. Wonderful.Īnd it comes with the added benefit of most relevant references to writers of all sorts – Wittgenstein, Keats, Hazlitt, George Borrow and, above all, to Edward Thomas. ![]() The Seven Sisters cliffs on the Sussex coast “are strung out like a line of washed and pegged sheets”. Swifts turn so sharply and smoothly and fast “that it seemed the air must be honeycombed with transparent tubes”. He describes “rain drilling the earth” during a big storm, a large field mushroom “lying upside-down its cap, its black gills like the charred pages of a book”. The colour of chalk showing through the snow on the Ridgeway is “the yellow of polar-bear fur or an old man’s knees”. ![]() There are simple, evocative images – a “dishwater sky of low cloud”, “porcelain snow’” in Tibet. ![]()
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