“If that was on my road the council would be like "Get that down, its a deathtrap!"”
To Ricky and Steve about The Great Pyramids.
An Idiot Abroad
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1950s
“The road up and the road down is one and the same.”
Fragment 60
Variant translations:
The road up and the road down are one and the same.
The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.
The way up and the way down are one and the same.
Numbered fragments
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