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Where does going come from? go < Old English gan, to go, advance, depart, happen, conquer, observe < Germanic *gaian < Indo-European root ghē-, to release, let go
Who is traveling when the traveler travels? Not the traveler but emotion, inertia, desire, volition, consciousness, thinking, language, the body, sensation, pleasure and pain, sociability, imitation, causality, narrative,…
What does the traveler believes when he leaves to travel? The traveler believes in novelty, knowledge, the numinous, and noumena perhaps; in chance, enchantment, destination, origin; in exploration, experience, experiment, expression, expenditure, expectation; in money; in the divisibility of time and space, the predictability of cause and effect; in progress perhaps more than process; in change and exchange; in Bernoulli’s principle and Bayes’ theorem (which most travelers believe without even knowing of); ultimately the traveler cannot depart, cannot arrive unless he believes in belief, the skeptical traveler a chimera, as is the skeptical sédentaire.
Where are travelers headed, no matter where they’re going? The destiny of all travelers is repetition, repetition, cessation, loss, . . . , sickness, death, doubt, greed, . . . , restlessness, laziness, disappointment, habituation, . . . , , . . . , dream, illusion, delusion, frustration, . . . , excess, surfeit, disgust, lust, . . . , comparison, words, thinking, overthinking, . . . , , . . . , regret, obstinacy, fear, conformity, . . . , consumption, excretion, filth, complacency, . . . , self-congratulation, conflict, danger, drama, . . . , , . . . , luck (good bad), something different, more of the same, people, . . . , more people, destruction, oppression, cruelty, . . . , indifference, complicity, misunderstanding, waste, : : : , boundaries, violence, decay, memory, . . . , signs, sounds, smells, spectacle, . . . , boredom, intensity, unconsciousness, guilt, . . . , , . . . , calculation, belatedness, waiting, envy, . . . , pity, constraint, stupidity, anger, . . . , coincidence, surprise, plotting, story, . . . , , . . . , witnessing, complaining, the herd, the beaten path, . . . , compulsion, buying and selling, weight, deceit, . . . , pleasure-seeking, play, moods, confusion, . . . , , . . . , sleep, sun, (re)counting, instinct, . . . , myth, circles, rubbish, redness, . . . , combustion, flux, fire, repetition, . . . |
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