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Nightwalks

Four writers fond of walking explore how this simple activity is dramatically transformed at night time.

3/4. Alain de Botton believes that the only way to appreciate how electricity is carried, in all its power and vastness, is to stroll beneath the pylons at midnight.

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Wed 24 Oct 200723:00
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