ABSTRACT
‘Walking in (900 questions concerning walking)’ and ‘Walking on’, a creative and personal essay divided into two chapters which open and close the collection, poses many questions concerning the various acts of walking. The questions themselves are designed not to be combative in any sense, but to question the very different ways in which we may approach walks and walking: as artists, as children, as land-workers, as non-human others, as mountains, as people of differing abilities among them. These questions are sometimes answered in the second instalment of the essay in anecdotal and lateral fashion. While articulating and affirming that there is no one way of walking, the essay as a whole posits, obliquely, that we are all joined in the singular act of walking, which is in fact the act of being, and further, that all walks are at one and the same time different, while being a few steps in a lifelong single walk; and that all walks, purposeful or without purpose, are the heritage of all things and the possession of no single person or entity.
