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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #75 - Knight to Queen's Bishop 3

12.1.10

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).

On this bike ride, you might expect:
- full moon picnics
- inconvenient passageways
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- karaoke
- geocaching
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0

Furthermore:
- usually 20-30 miles
- often 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:

Knight to Queen's Bishop 3


Ah, the knight. Brave, valiant. But also cunning. Whereas the other pieces march in
straight lines, the knight wages his attack in right angles. Out and around, he moves.
And, too, he can jump other pieces, therefore having the greatest advantage in
closed positions. Where others are trapped, he is free. The knight, atop his steed,
the knight gets around.

If our ride were to have a sort of "patron saint as chess piece" (and what ride is more
suited to have a chess piece as a patron than ours?) it would be that wily knight.
Where others go straight, we seek out the turns. Where others look for open road,
we find the inconvenient passageways.

This is not to say our way is better (it is the queen, after all, who is most powerful,
the king who is most important), but it is our way. It is what we do. And this week
we do it in spades. Be ready for some climbing, some portage, some off-roading --
and some donuts, because this week's ride is rated three donuts on our
scientifically-accurate donut rating scale.

*** UPDATE: One hill has been removed from the route, so it is downgraded to a 2.5
on the donut scale. Maybe even just a 2. ***


PLEASE NOTE: Use of the male pronoun is not meant to imply a gender bias. Honestly, it just seemed like
feminizing the knight maybe played into other, unfortunate stereotypes, of women as crafty or treacherous.
It is too bad that the English language doesn't easily allow for gender-neutrality. But women are, of course,
awesome. And are encouraged to come join our roundtable.


To stay informed about upcoming rides, join our mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/the-passage-announcements

For more information about past rides, visit our website:
http://www.ThePassageRide.com

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Certain shifting angles,
certain receding perspectives. 		 



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