>>2441062>Norfolk respecter>Sebald enjoyerMusic to my ears anon. The Rings of Saturn is one of my favourite books and was the impetus to walk the Suffolk coastal path in the first place. In fact I actually reread the book on the hike as a kind of travel guide. One of the most kino moments of my life for sure.
>pic relatedInteresting you mention Kessingland as that was one of the places that really stood out to me when doing my Sebald pilgrimage. I did the hike South to North so Kessingland was the final town before Lowestoft. I remember stopping there and talking to an elderly couple over lunch. The husband told me about their life and his job at BT where he eventually collapsed under the stress of work and suffered a mental breakdown. They decided to retire to Kessingland to recuperate and have lived there for over a decade. I asked them how they liked living in Suffolk and they answered that they hardly knew the county. I then asked if they had visited any of the places which had really made the trip for me e.g. Bawdsey manor, the walk up to Orford, Snape Maltings, Dunwich etc... and they hadn't been to any of them. In fact they hadn't left Kessingham (which I'm sure you understand isn't the most pleasant place) since they had arrived over a decade ago. Something about that conversation made me profoundly sad, just the idea that these people were living as ghosts; unable (or even worse, unwilling) to interact or derive pleasure from the world around them and only able to reminisce about their previous life in London which by all accounts had been utterly miserable. It was pretty melancholy listening to their tale at the time but my goodness did it top off The Rings of Saturn for me. I have very fond memories of that trip.
