The Cyclist and His Shadow by Olivier Haralambon

Author:Olivier Haralambon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2022-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

There you are again on the side of the road, standing clumsily in clover and couch grass. Here it comes. Half-close your eyes, softly. That’s the way to do it—you must get rid of the misleading clarity of the outlines—that’s the way to see the peloton as it is, to feel it march past with the gentle whirlwinds it creates. Breath and dust. You are beginning to understand. That huge, noisy, sweaty, and smelly animal is much more than the sum of the impeccable bodies it is made of—and is probably something completely different. Feel, behind the sparkle of the deep colors, the hazy patina that makes the light darker. While those glittering, shiny legs rush past under your nose, while those half-naked men flash by, whitewashed by the summer or gilded by the fall, the thrill you feel comes from one and the same flesh. Like every living creature, the bunch leaves behind it the deafening void of its absence, a space emptied by its passing, in which suddenly everything has died down.

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