The Wayfarer in Fiction
Wayfarism did not emerge from a vacuum. It has a literary tradition — British, humane, characterised by endurance held lightly — and a set of modern examples that arrived at the same territory independently, through story rather than argument. Both are useful. They show what the philosophy looks like when lived rather than theorised: imperfectly, under pressure, sometimes triumphantly, sometimes as a warning.
The Literary Wayfarers
The tradition that built the philosophy.
The Modern Wayfarers
What it looks like now.
Juliette
SiloMotion as vocation, truth as bearing.
Mark
SeveranceMotion without Bearing. What severance actually severs.
Jeremy Clarkson
Clarkson's FarmWayfarism arrived uninvited — and was accepted anyway.
Ted Lasso
Ted LassoBearing as a way of treating people.
Lance & Andy
DetectoristsWayfarism on a quiet Tuesday afternoon.
Samwise Gamgee
The Lord of the RingsThe purest Wayfarer in all of fiction.
Jimmy McGill
Better Call SaulA Wayfarer who chose the wrong bearing.
Know a character who belongs here? The Wayfarer appears in more stories than we have named.