(19 records of a saddle)
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Record no. 19
I just got back from an evening run. I felt inspired to run along some of the nearby elevated roads. I wanted to spend a few moments appreciating the splendor of those electronic street signs that look like dungeon-crawler mini-maps which decorate the major roads here in Shanghai. I’m not really sure why its’ necessary for them to be electronic, since it seems like the information on them never changes — they just give a schematic of the roads ahead and visualize the nature of their intersections. Maybe traffic data is presented in some subtle way that I’ve never noticed.
Despite having all sorts of landmarks that I love running past and catching glimpses of, it’s unthinkable for me to ever stop and study any of them closely. Even when I’m just walking and have nowhere in particular to be, the need for forward momentum is too great — I can’t slow down. So everything I know about city streets I know only in passing. When you’re running, you take the views you can get — streetlights glimmering behind green leaves bouncing up and down in the rain, or the tops of the trains as they pass by.
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