The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #135: The Devil's Footprints
02.8.12
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 third 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; not free of hills
- Victory donuts!
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This week:
The Devil's Footprints
On February 8, 1855, a trail of hoof-like marks appeared mysteriously in the snow over a distance of some 40-100 miles in the county of Devonshire, England. On February 8, 1952, Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of England. Coincidence? We think not!
The world deserves to know, so tonight (that's February 8, 2012, for those keeping track), we will be on the hunt, tracing the devil's footprints straight to his/her posh lair.
What Beelzebub accomplished in 40-100 miles, we will be doing in a mere 30. We'll not be shying away from hills, but the topography will not be as relentlessly rolling as last week's.
Talk, talk, talk...
(and join the mailing list!)
The hacienda must be built.
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