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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #104 - Purity Ring
06.29.11
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).
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
- 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:
Purity Ring
Sometimes one must not be afraid to go all the way. One must dauntlessly
proceed into that black fog of the unknown, follow the path where it leads, go
the distance. Fortune, as they say, favors the bold. But, sometimes, one must
summon the courage to NOT go all the way. Especially when one finds oneself
ALWAYS going all the way -- in one's haste, skipping over much of what is to
be found along the way -- then one has the duty to hesitate, to pause. All the
way is a limit point but it is not all there is. One can find pleasure in the process.
Tonight, we keep our proverbial "it" in our proverbial "pants." Tonight, we don't
go all the way. Where we are going, there is no particular there there. No site,
no destination, no climax. Tonight we ruminate on the in-between.
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