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Cycling as Viewed in Literature

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Fiction is largely concerned with what people do and how they feel about it. There are the great universal subjects: growing up, sexual love, raising children, old age and death. Within those universals, there are great novels about almost all of life's detailed activities: war, medicine, preaching, teaching, politics, lawyering, business, sporting and athletic competition, conquering or defying the environment. Travel in all its modes is a rich source of inspiration, starting with what some call our first novel, Homer's Odyssey. Seafaring, river boating, walking, travel by horse and by cart, by rail, by car and by plane; all these have inspired quite interesting novels by well-known writers. Where is cycling in this tradition? Just how accurately literature pictures life is disputable; it's not disputable that literature shows us the authors' and their readers' feelings about life's varied activities. We might not learn cycling from literature, but by studying cycling's appearances in

Cycling as Viewed in Literature Home Humour Essays Travel Images Cycling as Viewed in Literature by John Forester Fiction is largely concerned with what people do and how they feel about it. There are the great universal subjects: growing up, sexual love, raising children, old age and death. Within those universals, there are great novels about almost all of life's detailed activities: war, medicine, preaching, teaching, politics, lawyering, business, sporting and athletic competition, conquering or defying the environment. Travel in all its modes is a rich source of inspiration, starting with

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