Lars Frers Stop, rest, and digest Stop, rest, and digest Feeding people into nature

[the page breaks of the published version are given in square brackets] ! The route and the land through which it runs are in constant motion. They are not static entities over or through which dynamic men and their machines are moving. The route and the land are not taken out of time, they are not frozen on a canvas. As part of the earth’s surface they revolve through day and night, they pass below clouds and showers of rain, they move from winter to spring, they become brittle and crack, are overgrown, maintained, and painted. In this chapter, I want to add two new angles in the approach to the route which complement the perspective of a moving observer who develops judgments about the aesthetics of route and land-scape: first, the perspective of the dynamic route, second, the perspective of the corporeal, living human body. Of course, neither roads nor bodies do have a per-spective of their own. The idea is to take the actual entities that are relevant in this volume – routes and the land – as starting points that are of equal analytic value as constructs or concepts such as the sublime, landscape or mobility. The idea is to examine what kind of agency these entities unfold in interactions with those wh