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Quotation of the Day for January 10, 2016"It is a direct invasion of public space. It lays the counting, the pacing, the controlled frenzy, the Familiar undergarment-outergarments and skeletal look, on top of the ordinary practice of an outdoor walk. One thing that can be said for a gym is that an implied contract links everyone who works out in its mirrored and pungent hangar. All consent to undertake separate exertions and hide any mutual regard, as in a well-ordered masturbatorium. The gym is in this sense more polite than the narrow riverside, street, or nature path, wherever runners take over shared places for themselves. With his speed and narcissistic intensity the runner corrupts the space of walking, thinking, talking, and everyday contact. He jostles the idler out of his reverie. He races between pedestrians in conversation. The runner can oppose sociability and solitude by publicly sweating on them." - Mark Greif, from his [wrong-headed -eds.] essay Against Exercise. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 8, 2016  |
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