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A path that promises you're going somewhere, even when it loops right back.
means A marked path, route, or course for moving along — or the visible mark something leaves behind, or the act of following such marks.
from From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German 'trek,' meaning a drawing or pulling — the same family that gives us 'trek' and 'trace.' The earliest sense was the mark left by something dragged or hauled, like the rut a wheel cuts or the trail a beast leaves. From that drawn line came every later 'track': the railway, the running oval, the song on a record (a groove literally pressed into the disc), and the verb 'to track,' meaning to follow those telltale marks.
- sound of repeat
- Vinyl grooves are physical tracks etched in spirals
- hidden meaning
- To track is to hunt; prey leaves a trail
- oval truth
- Standard running tracks measure exactly 400 meters
- off the rails
- Trains derail when they leave their guiding tracks
- one-track mind
- Phrase mocks obsessive focus on a single thing
trans-siberian railway — 9,289 km railway from moscow to vladivostok, longest in the world
appalachian trail — 2,190 mile hiking trail from georgia to maine, established 1937
silk road — ancient trade routes connecting china to mediterranean from 2nd century bce