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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #91 - The Horn of Gabriel

03.30.11

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; a few small hills
- Victory donuts!
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This week:

The Horn of Gabriel



Ah, springtime, when a young cyclist's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of, well... bike riding, actually. Granted, in that respect, it's probably not all that different from any other time of the year, but being springtime, it is considerably more pleasant. Heavenly, even. Angelic? OK, sure, let's say angelic.

So then, were we to aim for the angelic this week, as cyclists we would naturally focus on a messenger (right? right?). That is to say: Gabriel, known as a bringer of Good News, yes, but also of Very Bad News, via his horn - some variety of angelic vuvuzela, we are told - which announces the end of the world. Now, understand, this business of the horn is entirely apocryphal, a thoroughly modern invention so far as any serious scholars of the subject are concerned (and they are oh-so very serious and oh-so very concerned). But if any weekly bicycle ride is prepared to dwell on apocrypha, this would be it. The forgotten, the yet-to-be, and the outright never-gonna-happen all get their due around these parts (apocryphal items being far more interesting that canonical ones in any case).

So... if you're still with us here, what this means is that the chances of finding what we are looking for are slim - vanishingly slim, in fact, like the tail end of the mathematical figure named after Gabriel's horn. But then who knows? As in our quest for El Dorado (which met with unexpected success), we may find that the horn - either the angelic instrument of apocalypse or the solid of infinite surface area but finite volume - exists! Or doesn't!

In any case, expect the following: six different cities, a bridge or two or three, and a surprising number of old, well-illuminated trees.

30-odd miles, with a minimum of hills and as many arbitrary twists and turns as this ride announcement. It's a two-donut rating (not too easy; not too hard), but given the length, we will probably run past midnight. Two raised donuts, then, and so much the better.

Blow, Gabriel, Blow.

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