| Fastest Man Around the World - Excerpt
2 |
 |
"What is it that you search
for when you go so far for so long?"
"The taste of death ahead of me."
"Don't you think that's a bit perverse?"
"Delicacies are fashioned best without dressing; to eat
the comb of honey and drink the fresh ferment of coconut with
an unrinsed mouth is as much as I can expect from life."
"You're talking in riddles. You're trying to do the Zen
thing and to be honest I never understood the concept of the
one-handed clap."
"Neither did I, but I do understand the difference between
the mechanical and the artistic. There is something elegaic
about pistons that behave like the poetic pieces of machinery
the makers intended. An engine that screams for mercy as you
accelerate to the limiter. But what I don't understand is how
three pistons collectively turn the crankshaft through 216 revolutions
per second, 13 000 revolutions per minute, 780 000 per hour,
or 14 040 000 every day." |
|
|
|
|
