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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #364 - Putting Baby in the Corner
08.10.16
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.
While we endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight),
it is generally not possible. Please plan accordingly.
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
- playgrounds, 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:
Putting Baby in the Corner
No small amount of attention gets focused upon edge spaces. Borders, boundaries, limits, the liminal, these are where things come together, or where things fall apart. Which is to say: these spaces are where things get interesting. And so they are justifiably explored, examined, and valued.
In the pantheon of edges, however, one type of space sits well below the rest: alas, the lowly corner. The place into which you do not want to back oneself nor, worse, paint oneself. To be cornered is a problem indeed. One may want to turn the corner, but only inasmuch as that implies you are getting past the corner in question. The four corners of the Earth don't sound too bad, but generally one only searches there as a last resort, right? Not because you wanted to but because you had to. And you may try to rid yourself of corners altogether, by cutting them, but even that is generally considered no good. Corners: you just have to deal with them. If you're very, very lucky, you might corner the market. That's best possible outcome with a corner. Whatever you do, do not put Baby in the corner. Nobody does that.* Nobody.
Unless you're riding with us this week, that is. This week, we are heading straight into the corner, baby.
(~45 miles; flat; 99% paved; but, again, please note: ~45 miles)
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