Authors who cycle
MattFalle
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Initially - thank you everyone for the reies to the "Pop Stars" thread - they have helped me prove a point. Keep them coming in!
Its all turned a tad cerebral around here, so....
does anyone know of any authors who cycle? And we mean proper authors, not the type who write that bog standard one off "I rode the Tour route on a recumbant" type that you get for Chrimbles, read then give to a jumble sale or biography writers. No journos.
We're talking Woolfe, Dickens, people who do those books with embossed covers that you find in Waterstones and on the wife's bedside table.
Grazie!
Its all turned a tad cerebral around here, so....
does anyone know of any authors who cycle? And we mean proper authors, not the type who write that bog standard one off "I rode the Tour route on a recumbant" type that you get for Chrimbles, read then give to a jumble sale or biography writers. No journos.
We're talking Woolfe, Dickens, people who do those books with embossed covers that you find in Waterstones and on the wife's bedside table.
Grazie!
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The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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HG Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle both went on tandem bike rides with their wives.0
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I was sure I remembered something about Virginia Woolf cycling, and found this.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/01/wheel-life-and-fiction-bicycling-in-literature
Has pics of Tolstoy and Hardy.0 -
spot on - grazie mille!kingstongraham said:I was sure I remembered something about Virginia Woolf cycling, and found this.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/01/wheel-life-and-fiction-bicycling-in-literature
Has pics of Tolstoy and Hardy..The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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grazie anche a lei!kingstongraham said:I was sure I remembered something about Virginia Woolf cycling, and found this.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/01/wheel-life-and-fiction-bicycling-in-literature
Has pics of Tolstoy and Hardy..The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race"
....is attributed to HG Wells
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Edited to add: unless it's a BMX0
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Some pics. Most already covered but a few extra.
https://www.flavorwire.com/328895/photos-of-famous-authors-and-their-bicycles1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Mark Twain is quoted as saying "Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live"0
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Ah - gotcha. grazie..
The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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No one's mention Ernest Hemingway.
He rode a bike and loved bike racing to boot.Ben
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