à la dérive de la Bièvre de Guy Debord who could sweep through any city
on a curve could river aloft even an old river knotted in the middle
of the night can be traced by its heat Debord who refused to follow
the meticulous scent only a city could in such debt could a city disarticulate
its imprecate grid in walking is the destruction of city planning the de-
Haussmannization of the mind on an October afternoon filtered light filtered
a break in the seal cast aside decades later a group of young people
got into the habit of walking a straight line across Paris no matter what buildings,
rivers, or other obstacles happened to refuse the pattern they unlocked
the genetic sequence and not without effect on the English Inclosure Acts of
the 18th and 19th centuries though this is difficult to document which is one
of its principal strengths.