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A review by eamcmahon3
American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal by Neil King
5.0
This book was PERFECTION! It feels like Brett R wrote this book (shoutout to you, Brett). This book was beautifully written, insightful, historical, and poignant. I would highly recommend it.
Just a few of my favorite quotes include:
"I knew well that I was drawing on a privilege both of attitude and appearance and how seamlessly the one buttresses the other. Pushing open certain doors is infinitely easier when you inhabit one body and not another. Being white and male undoubtedly smooths the path and reduces the risks along the way."
"Being an Anywhere Person also makes you more at home anywhere."
"I think the long-distance walker taps some primordial urge within us to respond to the pilgrim, to urge him on, to hope a little of whatever it is that he or she might be seeking will rub off on us."
"... because belonging, as a skill you nurture, is incubated best in solitude. The reality you encounter as you move from place to place is not a given upon arrival. It is not a fixed thing. It contains elastic qualities that you do a lot to shape as you go. You form a space as you enter it. Just as you do a conversation."
"You bring meaning with you when you go looking for meaning. And the more of it you bring, the more you get in return. What you find is often fragmentary and slippery. Our histories personal, tribal, national, are mosaics of broken pieces and shards of tile and stone. They contain within them, perhaps in equal measure, order and disorder, reason and randomness."
Just a few of my favorite quotes include:
"I knew well that I was drawing on a privilege both of attitude and appearance and how seamlessly the one buttresses the other. Pushing open certain doors is infinitely easier when you inhabit one body and not another. Being white and male undoubtedly smooths the path and reduces the risks along the way."
"Being an Anywhere Person also makes you more at home anywhere."
"I think the long-distance walker taps some primordial urge within us to respond to the pilgrim, to urge him on, to hope a little of whatever it is that he or she might be seeking will rub off on us."
"... because belonging, as a skill you nurture, is incubated best in solitude. The reality you encounter as you move from place to place is not a given upon arrival. It is not a fixed thing. It contains elastic qualities that you do a lot to shape as you go. You form a space as you enter it. Just as you do a conversation."
"You bring meaning with you when you go looking for meaning. And the more of it you bring, the more you get in return. What you find is often fragmentary and slippery. Our histories personal, tribal, national, are mosaics of broken pieces and shards of tile and stone. They contain within them, perhaps in equal measure, order and disorder, reason and randomness."