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Published · transcript-backedPaul Salopek: uncertainty
25 Jan 2023 Conversations with Tyler Paul Salopek on Walking the World
“I don’t know how that really started, and I don’t do it for every country. It’s more using borders as a milestone — an emotional milestone even more than a geographical or political one.”
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- Paul Salopek
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- uncertainty
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- 25 Jan 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Why do you write a goodbye essay to each country when you’re leaving it? I don’t know how that really started, and I don’t do it for every country. It’s more using borders as a milestone — an emotional milestone even more than a geographical or political one. I look back over the shoulder or glance back at the people that I met before I move on into a new polity. These are small summing-ups along the way on a journey where, my word, there’s just so much to sum up. It’s complicated. On a given day, you’re taking notes? Or you remember it all until the end? How do you operate with assembling and collecting information?…
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