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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #220 - Theory of Relativity
10.16.13
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),
but often it is not possible.
On this bike ride, you might expect:
- inconvenient passageways
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- disorientation
- reorientation
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- karaoke
- geocaching
- full moon picnics
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0
Furthermore:
- usually 20-35 miles
- usually some hills
- a medium pace (probably not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- few stops, short stops
- but we're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light
- victory donuts!
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This week:
Theory of Relativity
Don't know about you, but some of us around Passage HQ have already booked
our travel plans to visit relatives this winter. Yes, that time of raised airline prices and
uncomfortably packed trains we call "the holiday season" is quickly approaching.
And because this ride is as much therapeutic service as anything else, we thought
we'd give us all a little dry run -- to help prepare ourselves for the psychological
trauma of endless questions about our wardrobes, our social lives, our "careers,"
questions about "what we are doing with our lives."
Like any such visit, the exact details are impossible to fully plan. You just go and
then roll with it. You're in their hands. The plan is for a short overall trip -- under 20
miles -- but it all depends on how welcoming the folks are, or how insistent grandma
is that she fatten us up, or if we end up cornered by crazy Tea Party uncle in a
discussion about health care. Or for how long we feel we need togo off alone by
ourselves in the woods -- uphill, off-road -- to get away from everyone for a while.
We'll see. It's, um, relative.
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