Crash!
On flying into things.
Welcome back to Footnotes, stories about life in motion and the ideas that shape our movement through the world.
You are moving.
Forward, that is. Alight with speed, the air of your locomotion rustles in your ears. The ground whizzes beneath you.
Take a moment to consider the audacity of moving fast on a bicycle—a pace at which the world visually fuzzes. Watching a person on a bike today, our ancestors would have been astounded. How you go!
And then suddenly you are not. Going, that is. Your body is halted, that whizzing ground now present with an immediacy. You land shattering and crunching, your body turned into wreckage.
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