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This is a blog designed specifically for those with an interest in the 2012 edition of the Tour de France bicycle race, especially those who take part in the TdF sweepstakes run by John Ashburne (in Japan) and Joe Banerjee (in the UK). It is authored by the cycling pundit and fan of Dadaist literature, Atomic Saddles, whose philosophy is best described thus:
“Everything is composed of small particles of itself and they are flying around in concentric circles and arcs and segments and other innumerable geometrical figures too numerous to mention collectively, never standing still or resting but spinning away and darting hither and thither and back again, all the time on the go. These diminutive gentlemen are called atoms… They are as lively as twenty leprechauns doing a jig on top of a tombstone.
…Consecutively and consequentially, you can safely infer that you are made of atoms yourself and so is your fob pocket and the tail of your shirt and the instrument you use for taking the leavings out of the crook of your hollow tooth.
Do you happen to know what takes place when you strike a bar of iron with a good coal hammer or a blunt instrument?…When the wallop falls, the atoms are bashed away down to the bottom of the bar and compressed and crowded there like eggs under a good clucker…Some of the atoms of the bar will go into the hammer and the other half into the table or the stone or the particular article that is underneath the bottom of the bar…
The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.” Flann O’Brien – The Third Policeman.
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