Decorticated Cats Can Walk

Notes from:

The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy and Literature of Pedestrianism
Geoff Nicholson

Riverhead books
2008
258 pages

11 - decorticated cats can walk
35 - Duke university paper, walking 20 minutes three times a week better than anti-depressants
56 - Mudman
62 - naked walking
63 - Old Leatherman
71 - 600 miles in 20 days, 400 miles in 10 days
75 - walk a mile in 12 to 25 minutes
76 - pedestriennes - female walkers
79 - notes
81 - 50 mile walks
141 - walking a songline
169 - "walking isn't much good as a theatrical experience."
174 - Death Valley
182 - Labyrinths
186 - the wandering Jew
187 - Malchus
188 - Baguazhang
195 - "Walking on water wasn't built in a day." Jack Kerouac
199-200 - Winograd - move to LA goes "shuttercrazy" and takes 300,000 some photographs.
201 - Martin Paw, Bruce Gilden
202 - "A walk is never equally fascinating for it's whole length."
204 - Pedestrians - "they are protected from commerce but not from art."
208 - "the point in history at which we could take a still photograph of a man walking was essentially the same moment at which we could also take a moving picture of a man walking."
215 - "once you show weakness, weak people take over."
217 - "If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself, there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking..." attributed to St. Augustine