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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #320: False Recapitulation
10.7.15
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.
On the seventh 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.
- Maybe some distance;maybe some hills
- Victory donuts!
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This week:
False Recapitulation
Daily life, so often governed by routines and anchored by ritual, lends itself to repeating forms - meeting at the
same spot every week for a bike ride, for instance - and this is not necessarily a bad thing. Much as in music,
where a familiar phrase can take on different aspects with each repetition, our hours and weeks and days can
be enriched through some degree of repeated experience.
But sometimes, what seems like repetition is just a fake-out. Sometimes you think you know where you're
going; sometimes you think you're returning to familiar territory; sometimes, you think you're repeating
yourself; sometimes you're wrong.
(Under 20 miles, all paved; a few stairways; quite hilly)
Talk, talk, talk...
Check out our web site!
(and our tumblr!)
(and join the mailing list!)
The hacienda must be built.
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