Dire Straits on track by 2022

Author:2022
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2022-10-05T13:19:55+00:00

On 19 November 1980, Dire Straits’ tour bus drove the 170 miles from Cleveland to Detroit. Two hours into the journey, after passing through Toledo and turning north, the bus turned onto Route 24, known locally as Telegraph Road. Sitting at the front of the tour bus, Mark Knopfler was reading the novel The Growth of the Soil by the Nobel Prize winning Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, a story of a man who settles and lives in rural Norway, first published in 1917.

The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest--who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being, the first that came here. There was no path before he came. Afterward, some beast or other, following the faint tracks over marsh and moorland, wearing them deeper; after these again some Lapp gained scent of the path, and took that way from field to field, looking to his reindeer. Thus was made the road through the great Almenning--the common tracts without an owner; no-man’s-land.

The man comes, walking toward the north. He bears a sack, the first sack, carrying food and some few implements. A strong, coarse fellow, with a red iron beard, and little scars on face and hands …Here and there, where the moors give place to a kindlier spot, an open space in the midst of the forest, he lays down the sack and goes exploring; after a while he returns, heaves the sack to his shoulder again, and trudges on.

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