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Emlyn Lewis

Robot fell in love with cycling watching the older neighborhood kids ride wheelies down the street. It was the early '70s, and Evel Knievel was jumping motorcycles over buses. Everything seemed possible. From that moment, the die was cast (iacta alia est).

He studied philosophy in college, of course he did. That's what idealists do, romantics, kids who think there must be a better way. At the same time, bikes were carrying him everywhere, delivering all of life's gifts and surprises. Occasionally he crashed and didn't mind.

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Leaf Math

Emlyn Lewis
I mark the autumn by falling off my bike more. There is a cruelty to the season, as the heat of summer finally relents and makes all that pedaling easier, but suddenly leaves…
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Darwin’s Bicycle

Emlyn Lewis
Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published in 1859. Across the English Channel, Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement were inventing what we think of today as the bicycle.…
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Revolting 149

Emlyn Lewis
Natural Born Killers. There are aliens among us, people endowed with extraordinary abilities and no fucks to give. They don’t need expensive equipment. They don’t need a very…
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How to Dodge Bullets

Emlyn Lewis
The bullets come flying, but at this point in the film, you know they're not going to kill the chosen one, Neo, Keanu Reeves in a leather trench coat. Instead, the bullets…

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