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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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a specially prepared beaten track out of town
Does the highlighted section mean "a detour that starts from somewhere outside the town and ends somewhere else again outside the town"?
2. Does "habit of sticking to prescribed paths" mean that they are good citizens who walk or cycle only inside the specified paths and do not go out of the road (for example in the grasses and flowers)?
The Polish artist Pawel Althamer’s Path seems directly to pick up the baton of Wallinger’s challenge to venture beyond the pale. Conceived supposedly according to the perception that the good (mainly Catholic) burghers of Munster have a rather pronounced habit of sticking to prescribed paths – on foot, by bike – in their quotidian use of public space, Althamer provides a specially prepared ‘beaten track’ out of town to take you, again paradoxically, off the beaten track.
2. Does "habit of sticking to prescribed paths" mean that they are good citizens who walk or cycle only inside the specified paths and do not go out of the road (for example in the grasses and flowers)?
The Polish artist Pawel Althamer’s Path seems directly to pick up the baton of Wallinger’s challenge to venture beyond the pale. Conceived supposedly according to the perception that the good (mainly Catholic) burghers of Munster have a rather pronounced habit of sticking to prescribed paths – on foot, by bike – in their quotidian use of public space, Althamer provides a specially prepared ‘beaten track’ out of town to take you, again paradoxically, off the beaten track.
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1. It seems to be a path designed to encourage the inhabitants to make an excursion into the countryside (out of the town and off the main roads). Whether it is a "detour" or an excursion for its own sake is not specifically mentioned.
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- It seems to be a path designed to encourage the inhabitants to make an excursion into the countryside (out of the town and off the main roads).
- Whether it is a "detour" or an excursion for its own sake is not specifically mentioned.
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- Yes, something like that, I think.
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1. It seems to be a path designed to encourage the inhabitants to make an excursion into the countryside (out of the town and off the main roads). Whether it is a "detour" or an excursion for its own sake is not specifically mentioned.
2. Yes, something like that, I think.
2. Yes, something like that, I think.
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red appleDoes the highlighted section mean "a detour that starts from somewhere outside the town and ends somewhere else again outside the town"?I don't find that the text specifies this very clearly. a 'track' out of town may be a track that takes you out of town (movement) or a track that is located out of town (position). So the highlighted section may m
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