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asphalt, sea lanes away
The big world is tied together by asphalt, sea lanes and footpaths, and everywhere you go humans are puttering away for more or less the same reasons. For family. Toil, till, harvest, over Peruvian potato patches and Illinois corn.
— Héctor Tobar, The Last Great Road Bum : A Novel (2020) : link