It may very well be that where Leonard used to write to see, he now walks to see. Mead was at one time a “writer,” but now that “magazines and books didn’t sell anymore” he did not write. It is astonishing what Leonard has come to see in all this time of walking. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do.” It has been during this “ten years of walking” “just walking” “every night” for “hours and miles” at a time that Leonard Mead has come to be a man that clearly sees his world. Set in the city on an early November evening in the year 2053 at 8:00 pm, The Pedestrian is a powerful fable about the glories of walking as a human activity, but the perils of walking in an age that no longer walks, sees, listens, or thinks.
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