2009-07-17
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quote 14:22:44
“ Those who spend most of their lives being alert to the demands of others – and that’s most employees, most husbands, wives, parents, most believers – will know the rhythmic, sedative pull of the motorways as the road performs its magic, pulling you back by degrees to some forgotten individualism that the joys and vexations of community always threatened to turn into an upholstered void. Virginia Woolf was almost right: all one really needs is a car of one’s own, the funds to keep it on the road and the will to encounter oneself within. ”
Andrew O’Hagan: A Car of One’s Own in the London Review of Books. via Joe Moran, whose On Roads comes highly recommended.
