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Sport 39: 2011
Questions
Questions
A human geographer must condense the distribution of natural complexities. This requires a synoptic dance of planes and levels. My father is a dune of questions: How is a place created? Does the lateral expansion of plume block the distributary mouth? Can a bridge transform a mountain from one region to another? The river has a still surface but flows with moderate speed. We shout instructions over the bridge in echoing cascades of sand. Geography is a field of middle grounds.
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page 234In one photograph the geographer slides on a jacket in front of a winged mirror, with the help of my mother. For a moment he is his own father, his arms raised. They are off to the musical adaptation of As You Like It.
Are you going to change? my mother says.
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A fault can be hard to fathom. The facies of features flood in generated waves. A geographer can run the length of an unobstructed sea, but can he find the wind?