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"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around a lake." This line from Wallace Stevens\' "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction" captures something of the mysteries of walking. It points to the undeniable yet baffling relationship between walking and thinking, between putting one foot in front of the other and uncovering the secret of the soul and world. In this episode, JF and Phil exchange ideas about the weirdness of this thing most humans did on most days for most of world history. The conversation ranges over a vast territory, with zen monks, novelists, Jesuits and more joining your hosts on what turns out to be a journey to wondrous places.

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REFERENCES

Dogen, The Mountains and Waters Sutra
\\nWeird Studies listener Stephanie Quick on the Conspirinormal podcast
\\nWeird Studies episode 51, Blind Seers: On Flannery O\'Connor\'s \'Wise Blood\'
\\nLionel Snell, SSOTBME
\\nHenry David Thoreau, "Walking"
\\nArthur Machen, "The White People"
\\nHerman Melville, Moby Dick
\\nVladimir Horowitz, Russian panist
\\nGregory Bateson, cybernetic theorist
\\nThe myth of the Giant Antaeus
\\nWallce Stevens, "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction"
\\nDeleuze, Difference and Repetition
\\nMichel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
\\nJohn Cowper Powys, English novelist
\\nWill Self, English writer
\\nGuy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
\\nArcade Fire, \\u201cWe Used to Wait\\u201d
\\nPaul Thomas Anderson (director), Punch Drunk Love
\\nViktor Shklovsky, Russian formalist
\\nPatreon blog post on Phil\\u2019s dream
\\nDavid Lynch (director), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me