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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #97 - Donut Shop at the End of the Universe

05.11.11

One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

It's a bike ride.

Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.

It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We'll endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight).
See how we move.

On the second year of this bike ride, you might expect:
- more inconvenient passageways
- more full moon picnics
- perhaps more "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- certainly more amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- dance parties
- karaoke
- imaginary histories
- scavenging for fun and sustenance
- more geocaching
- more oblique strategies
- more Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties

Furthermore:
- A medium pace (maybe not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- We're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light.
- 30-ish miles this week; pretty flat.
- Victory donuts!
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This week:

Donut Shop at the End of the Universe



What will they make of us? The archaeologists, I mean.

When all is said and done - whether by asteroid, supervolcano or global pandemic - and the remnants of our civilization have been buried in ash and overgrown by vines, their embedded traditions long forgotten by any who might have survived, how will those future observers ever make sense of us?

It's hard to imagine that anyone so removed (both literally and figuratively unplugged) from our culture would be able to understand our lives any more than we are now able to understand the daily joys and sorrows of an Assyrian chickpea farmer. Sure, we can read the Epic of Gilgamesh, but do we _feel_ the Epic of Gilgamesh? As good a story as it may be, it is in many ways just a scaffold for a tradition to which we no longer have access. And even if our future archaeologists could flake away the residues of time and finally view, say, an episode of American Idol - a ritual that embodies so many of the pressures of living in a media-saturated age - would it be meaningful to them, living as they surely will be with their own set of values and assumptions, vastly different from ours?

Probably not, but but we cannot stop them from trying (we'll be dead, for one thing). So then, let them start with what we've built and see if they can't piece our story together. Undoubtedly, they will find our urns of plastic, our aerosol frescoes and our diesel-powered adzes. They will find our quarries, middens and sites of extraction (near and dear to the heart of any archaeologist). All around our cities, they will find temples and shrines to the well-established deities: Jesus, Vishnu, Ronald McDonald... For we were a spiritual people, clearly.

And most of these puzzle pieces will fit; if only by virtue of their sheer ubiquity, they will begin to make sense. But what to make of these _other_, rarer monuments: this parabolic shield, that anthropomorphic feline and - most puzzling of all - those enormous toroids, looming gloriously over the crossroads? Are they remnants of some marginalized cult? Commemorations of some great leader or historic event? What _is_ a roadium? They may never know.

We will visit these future historic sites and more. Monuments rising high. Pits dug deep.

It's a long and flat this week. 30+ miles, with no hills at all.
No promises on catching those trains, unless they are blue or green.
Dre got some ditches from the City of Compton.

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