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“The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the 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.’ I let go a gasp of astonishment that made a sound in the air like a bad puncture. ‘And you would be flabbergasted at the number of bicycles that are half-human almost half-man, half-partaking of humanity.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman