The Calgary cousinage of Restlessness.

I look for innovative ecstasies, ways of coming home, ways of decamping, ways to abandon the scene of uncommitted crimes.

Rootless. Castaway. Robinson Crusoe without an island, and certainly never with a Friday, eager to break the monotony. (Restlessness, 45)

And after all, why nor? Home, arrival and departure.

Restlessness began as a travel book which metamorphosed into an anti-travel book, then a book about homesickness, about longing to stay at home, about finding a door to hide behind.

Calgary dogged the heels of Restlessness like a bristling husky, a street dog who ...

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