The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.
Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.100, Univ of California Press
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