November 2010
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"an enormous canvas on which to draw by walking"
The world is “an enormous canvas on which to draw by walking”, a “surface that is not a white page, but an intricate design of historical and geographical sedimentation on which to simply add one more layer” [1: 150, emphasis mine]. From the ancient footprints of two Australopithecus afarensis in Laetoli (Tanzania) 3.4 millions of years ago to the first steps of Neil Amstrong on the moon in 1969,...
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