The Camino in Howard's End

Yesterday I got my boots for the Wimps' Walk segment that Bill and I are doing in September, but the price wasn't wimpish.  Here they are as still life along with the tower of books I'm reading on the Camino.

I can write more about that another time.  

Today I just had the urge to write about the "pilgrimage" that the male protagonist of Howard's End, Leonard Bast, relates to the Schlegel sisters.  I found that I marked up the pages where it comes in Chapter XIV. 

 I like the idea that he was trying to walk in an area he'd read about in novels, so he walked all night, and when the Schlegel sisters ask him whether it was wonderful, he says, "No."   

That causes them to respect him more than all his previous allusions to literary works like The Ordeal of Richard Feverel and Robert Louis Stevenson's Prince Otto and Virginibus.