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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459741" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On the incredibly subtle art of walking</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You’re walking down Princes Street<br>or across the market square, or<br>in front of the museum, or<br>towards the bus or rail station..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he’s there, with his poster on a stick<br>and handmedown clothes; and <br>despite lowering your eyes, he says to you, <br>‘Do you have Faith…? ’ but of course he means<br>that other sort… or higher sort…or whatever…<br>and smart answers will drip off him<br>like the rain that’s dripping from his mac…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so, no use pointing out that every step<br>you quickly take in passing him..<br>is taken in a total faith, unquestioning…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Walking is very, very tricky…if<br>you never learned… or have to learn again…<br>you want to move forward: shift your centre of balance<br>dangerously forward to be off-balance…<br>counteract that by extending one leg firmly…<br>now, with that leg as lever, return your centre of balance<br>through the centre of the body, to your other leg, <br>which you then extend, repeating the mirror-image<br>(without prior thought…) of your previous action; <br>now add to this exquisite balance, <br>a swerve to left or right to avoid<br>the oncoming pedestrian who believes<br>his ego has the right of unswerved way…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Congratulations! You’ve just managed<br>two steps, in one of the most intricate manoeuvres<br>a human being has invented, since… since when? <br>(Of course, you don’t believe in evolution, <br>Adam walked upright, right…?) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, you have faith, my son… but<br>try not to think too much about this<br>as you walk…yet, perhaps<br>a little wonder, even gratitude<br>would do no harm… now, <br>where’s my walking-stick?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459741" data-title="On the incredibly subtle art of walking de Michael Shepherd" data-description="You’re walking down Princes Street or across the market square, or in front of the museum, or towards the bus or rail station.. and he’s there, with his poster on a stick and handmedown clothes; and despite lowering your eyes, he says to you..."></div> </div> </div>
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