In Flann O'Brian's "The Third Policeman,"
" ...the main text is primarily concerned with the adventures of our
antihero who, wandering through a weirdly defamiliarized rural district,
comes to be detained by a pair of cheerfully batty policeman. Their
worldview is what you might call bicyclogical: things fully make sense
only when regarded through a lens involving tire pumps, handlebars, and
light dynamos. It's connected to the `Atomic Theory':
`People who spend most of the natural lives riding iron bicycles over the
rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the
personalities of their bicycles as a result of the interchanging of atoms
of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in
these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.' "
O'Neill, Joseph. "The Last Laugh." May 2008. _TheAtlantic.com_. 9 May 2008
<http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200805/flann-obrien/2>
.... seems oddly pertinent though I'm not sure how or why.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"
