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He wants to tell the world about what it means to run. To feel your nerves cycling in and out of one another. The entire body, circulating. And how, in the moments after the run ends, this flurry of bodily activity briefly increases. Or it seems to, when contrasted to your static body, when you finally stop to listen. You lie on the couch and feel your pinky talk to your eyeball as your chest flickers with static. And then things settle. Maybe the world just needs to let off some steam.
He has the feeling that if he ever truly understood his own body, like how a heart can pump blood and a lung can squish out oxygen, he’d understand the Unmapping. He’d understand the world. If you understand one thing completely, you understand everything.
A blaring noise comes from the phones all around. It wakes him from his snow globe daydream. An emergency alert. He knows what it will say. A hurricane is coming to New York City.
