The open road

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The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a willful stranger;
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Adventure The open road

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Youth and Love." Songs of Travel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 3.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dark-times neither day nor night-the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they cast a mysterious shadow of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

William Least Heat-Moon

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Topic

The open road Adventure

Author

William Least Heat-Moon

Source

Blue Highways

Genre

Travel writing Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Heat-Moon, William Least. Blue Highways. Fawcett Crest, 1982, preface.

I'm a connoisseur of roads. I've been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end.

My Own Private Idaho

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Topic

The open road

Speaker

Mike Waters

Actor

River Phoenix

Source

My Own Private Idaho

Medium

Film

Genre

Adventure (film) Drama (film) Adventure Drama

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

My Own Private Idaho. Directed by Gus Van Sant, New Line Cinema, 1991.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

The open road

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

The Vagabond

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." Songs of Travel. Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 4.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." The Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Roger C. Lewis. Edinburgh University Press, 2019, st. 4.