In the age of fast food, drive-ins, and the boom in the book trade on the internet, many people dream of “apart” places of conviviality and culture, places full of meaning and openness. to speech. Place where we would pass by a little by chance (hikers, summer visitors, etc.), singular place where we would choose to come, even from afar, place finally where we would settle down, where we would stay to enjoy a a beneficial stopover, that of a rediscovered time, taken back from the frenzy of speed and the tyranny of immediacy. The Wandering Tree, or the privilege of the slow hour.