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16978710 No.16978710 [Reply] [Original]

Have you taken the stroll pill yet anons? I'm thinking of picking up picrel, anyone here read it?

>> No.16978936

>>16978710
>stroll pill
I took it by accident in high school when I went on nightly walks in the country side. Walking by Thoreau is good, I’ll look into this book op. Thanks

>> No.16979059

>>16978710
pic related looks kinda shit desu but I like the idea any other stroll pill books

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>>16979059
Reveries of a Solitary Walker, The Society of the Spectacle, The Rings of Saturn and A Time of Gifts all come to mind. I'd also be interested in if any anons have read pic related

>> No.16979697

>>16978710
I love walks desu. Please give me more like this.

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>>16979697
This was pretty interesting. I've been meaning to read Werner Herzog's Of Walking In Ice some time too.There's also plenty of strollpilled fiction, Tolkien definitely

>> No.16980450

Bruce Chatwin - In Patagonia
WB Sebald - Rings of Saturn
Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice

>> No.16980655

>>16979786
Walking in Ice is pleasant and very short. As someone who has engaged in similar impulsive walkabouts in my youth I found it very relatable. The Lord Of The Rings really is just about one very long walk isn't it? And the hobbits have feet especially designed for it. Gandalf knew what he was doing.

>> No.16980678

Not a book, but related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbup1y1oCxM

>> No.16981178
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>Lost in thought in long solitary walks, wrapped in a dressing-gown as he wandered 15 miles to Dunfermline from Kirkcaldy, the small coastal town to which he retreated with his mother and in which he declared he had had never been happier, laughing and talking to himself while carrying a bunch of flowers (perhaps to protect himself against the city's famously noxious smells) in the streets of Edinburgh, Adam Smith presents an engagingly otherworldly figure
Who were some other /strollpilled/ writers?

>> No.16981413

>I have been one acquainted with the night.
>I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
>I have outwalked the furthest city light.

>I have looked down the saddest city lane.
>I have passed by the watchman on his beat
>And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

>I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
>When far away an interrupted cry
>Came over houses from another street,

>But not to call me back or say good-bye;
>And further still at an unearthly height,
>One luminary clock against the sky

>Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
>I have been one acquainted with the night.

sorry it's all I've got

>> No.16981600

Romaji Diary by Takuboku Ishikawa. It's all about this dude trying to provide for like 5 people in his family by himself in the early 20th century Tokyo. He failed and died of tuberculosis at age 26 but he sure did love to go on walks and write about Japan. Like half his diary entries are just days he called in sick to work and went off to the middle of nowhere to just sight-see.

Sad but relaxing read, with interesting takes on Modernist literature as it was just taking off.

>> No.16982385

walks with walser

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>> No.16983449

Macfarlane is based