Sunday, August 24, 2008

"The empire of the automobile"

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P.R. Baptista, Brazil's bicycle poet, reports on "World Naked Bike Ride"--and on cycling in Buenos Aires (population sixteen million, most of whom seem to be on the road at any given time and in a great hurry. Baptista calls it, "the empire of the automobile"):

The cyclist appears in this inhospitable environment as a type of quixotic figure to duel with each corner of the quick and deadly metallic machines.


I link to his blog using Babel Fish (free), an imperfect language translator, which renders the text in English.

1 comment:

  1. Gordon, thank you for your kindness
    to quote my site.
    I keep always minded on Social Biking.
    The two other sites I maintain are
    www.pinhalivre.org
    and
    www.thechainlesscyclist.org

    From Brasil
    P.R.Baptista
    contato@videverso.com

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