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Shifting

By WorldWideWeber | Published: March 13, 2006
A friend at work gave me an old bicycle (a Giant—that’s the name, don’t blame me). After I added a few essentials for commuting safely (rear-view mirror, front and back lights, etc.), the bike was ready to serve as a backup to my old Trek hybrid (which badly needs a new middle chain ring—on order [...]
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Passion

By WorldWideWeber | Published: February 27, 2006
The subject of passion arose recently in this electronic space, and it sprang loose a quote that I have yet to come to grips with, almost twenty years after encountering it as an epigraph to a book by Don Robertson: Passions are not natural to mankind; they are always exceptions or excrescences. The ideal, genuine [...]
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Zvuki Mu

By WorldWideWeber | Published: February 5, 2006
This morning I had a simple, nostalgic little thought: What ever happened to Звуки Му? Well, with the internet at my fingertips, it didn’t take long to discover that, far from going up in smoke as a flash in the perestroika pan some time in the nineties, Звуки Му is alive and kicking. That is [...]
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  • Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
    —Gravity’s Rainbow

    ‘Is it about a bicycle?’ he asked.
    —The Third Policeman