A skills once learned you never forget?
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lethargic_manNot riding a bicycle; I haven't abstained from that long enough to even possibly forget. But I went ice skating today for the first time in at least nineteen years, since as a kid I went with Junior Maccabi, and it was astonishing how fast I picked it up again: Within half an hour, I went from being the worst skater on the rink to reasonably competently* skating along at 10mph.
Skating as an adult, it struck me how many of the rules and guidelines of the Highway Code were blatantly ignored on the ice-rink (no undertaking, no accelerating during turns, etc). I also found the experience bringing me a little closer to the world of David Zindell's Neverness, where for six month every year the streets are covered with ice and the population gets about skating everywhere.
It was fun, too.
* Though not by any means looking it. <windmills arms> ;^)
Skating as an adult, it struck me how many of the rules and guidelines of the Highway Code were blatantly ignored on the ice-rink (no undertaking, no accelerating during turns, etc). I also found the experience bringing me a little closer to the world of David Zindell's Neverness, where for six month every year the streets are covered with ice and the population gets about skating everywhere.
It was fun, too.
* Though not by any means looking it. <windmills arms> ;^)
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Date: 2004-06-07 02:42 pm (UTC)Read the book again. There is never any mention of there being summer, or of the streets ever being other than frozen. I think this is one of Mallory's background assumptions that shoots over the reader's head.
Six months would be.. like Montreal, really.
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Date: 2004-06-07 03:11 pm (UTC)