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Grand Tours Pt 2: Bat on the Narrow Road
What’s the difference between being a passive tourist and a wayfarer?
Follow the 17th-century footsteps of Matsuo Basho to interrogate the gap between curated tourist destinations and the open-ended, ego-stripping realities of true travel. By contrasting the lush, internal landscapes of L.M. Montgomery with the skeletal prose of classical Japanese travel sketches, we ask: Can we ever truly encounter a sovereign landscape, or do our books merely wrap the earth in a comforting postcard illusion?
Along the way, we look at the haiku in its haibun form and use Martin Heidegger’s classic…
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