How Is a Pilgrim Like a Soldier? Anne Carson’s “Kinds of Water: An Essay on the Road to Compostela”

Francis Alÿs’s Guards (London 2004–5) is a thirty-minute video documenting a loosely scripted narrative of sixty-four Coldstream Guards, the oldest regiment in the British Army. By different streets, unaware of one another’s route, the uniformed guards wander through London looking for one another. …