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Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection

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Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection
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“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking… Walking and thinking are in a perpetual relationship that is based on trust.”

“I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession,” the adolescent Sylvia Plath wrote in her diary as she contemplated free will and what makes

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