i attempted to learn to drive 10 years ago but gave up out of compassion for
my instructor who visibly aged during the experience. what i found was that
i had no 'feel' for the relationship of the backward of this tin box in
regards to me sitting at the wheel.
that apart, i do echo positively and recurringly to the remarks about
walking & thereby mapping a place - if i'm just driven about a somewhere i
come away feeling i don't know this place, whereas if i walk it .....
am interested too, of the many facets of this remarkable thread, in the
notion of place as speech, i speak/write as the possessor of an absolutely
autochthonous birmingham accent. more please on this.
regards
david
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