Canaan

We must walk, W. says, we have to walk. We have to continue to walk, and in so doing, to continue the walk of others before us. Mandelstam writing his poems on the hoof, Kierkegaard his philosophy. Benjamin's flaneur straying in Paris. Ghandi heading to make salt on the beachhead of Dandi …

To walk to leave the house of bondage behind, as Moses left Egypt. The walker is always heading towards Canaan, W. says. It's always a question of going out, away, towards the promised land. But, in truth, there is no such land – or that land is only another place to wander, another version of the desert.