The Mysticism of Motorcycles

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Van needs to ride about once a week or else he goes crazy. There's a line in a novel so great that he bought the book two more times to find it again. One paperback, one ebook. The passage describes what happens on a motorcycle: waking up, then waking up from that, then waking up even more. Was everything redneck actually mystical? The motorcycle as a vehicle for transcendence isn't metaphor for Van. It's phenomenology.

Transcript

I need to ride about once a week or else I go [Music] crazy. There's a line in this novel so great that I bought the book two more times so I could find it again. One

paperback, one ebook. She says, "I'd always thought of these types of machines as toys for uneducated people who didn't care about the environment,

but maybe they weren't. Maybe this was a kind of meditation. I felt connected to everything and the motor volume held me at a level of alertness I wasn't used

to. I kept waking up and then waking up from that and then waking up even

more. Was everything redneck actually mystical? You bet your ass, Miranda.

Books Mentioned

• unknown novel