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...riders bobbing to and fro atop 60 dancing humps. The race comprises two laps of Timia's valley floor - less than 4 miles in total. Adam comes in second to last, and finds a group of sweating men arguing over which of them finished first. The camels buck and bray, feisty as ever...
...Willie Mays, that athletes do this all the time, joust against age and lose--Jim Palmer, Joe Louis, Johnny Unitas. That even if there's something poetic about competing against your mortality, no one ever wrote a poem called "To an Athlete Going Gray." Even worse than the bray of the acolytes is the example of his golf buddy Mario Lemieux, 36, who also owns a team, and returned this year at the top of his game. Jordan doesn't like to be showed...
...Willie Mays, that athletes do this all the time, joust against age and lose--Jim Palmer, Joe Louis, Johnny Unitas. That even if there's something poetic about competing against your mortality, no one ever wrote a poem called "To an Athlete Going Gray." Even worse than the bray of the acolytes is the example of his golf buddy Mario Lemieux, 36, who also owns a team, and returned this year at the top of his game. Jordan doesn't like to be showed...
...bray along these lines for a minute, going on about the cultural downside of American overprivilege (whining about dodge ball - dodge ball! - being of a piece somehow with Jerry Springer, Columbine, Jennifer and Puffy, Eminem and other manifestations of what might be called the opulence of democratized decline...
...killer beach, this time alone. The soldiers hitting the Normandy sands in Saving Private Ryan faced grim death, but it might come in the arms of a buddy. Chuck Noland, the FedEx manager stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crash, has no one to talk to, to bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work--no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire. He will replicate the ascent...