I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
“As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.”
“When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.”