Sawyer Paul's Blog, page 108
May 10, 2012
Cycle of Fear
Cycle of Fear:
I’ve heard people say the same thing about rock-climbing: how it shrinks
your universe to the half-inch of rock surface immediately in front of you,
this crevice, that toehold. Biking is split-second fast and rock-climbing
painstakingly slow, but both practices silence the noise of the mind and
render self-consciousness blissfully impossible. You become the anonymous
hero of that old story, Man versus the Universe. Your brain’s glad to
finally have a real job to do, instead of all that trivial busywork. You
are all action, no deliberation. You are forced, under pain of death, to
quit all that silly ideation and pay attention. It’s meditation at gunpoint.
May 8, 2012
May 7, 2012
"When I’m balanced on two thin wheels at 30 miles an hour, gauging distance, adjusting course, making..."
“When I’m balanced on two thin wheels at 30 miles an hour, gauging distance, adjusting course, making hundreds of unconscious calculations every second, that idiot chatterbox in my head is kept too busy to get a word in. I’ve heard people say the same thing about rock-climbing: how it shrinks your universe to the half-inch of rock surface immediately in front of you, this crevice, that toehold. Biking is split-second fast and rock-climbing painstakingly slow, but both practices silence the noise of the mind and render self-consciousness blissfully impossible. You become the anonymous hero of that old story, Man versus the Universe. Your brain’s glad to finally have a real job to do, instead of all that trivial busywork. You are all action, no deliberation. You are forced, under pain of death, to quit all that silly ideation and pay attention. It’s meditation at gunpoint.”
- On cycling. (via somethingchanged)
- On cycling. (via somethingchanged)
May 6, 2012
Who watches the watchmen at McDonalds.
Who watches the watchmen at McDonalds.
