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1 " Mister Geoffrey, my experiment shows that the dynamo and the bulb are both working properly," I said. " So why won't the radio play?" " I don't know," he said. " Try connecting them here." He was pointing toward a socket on the radio labeled " AC," and when I shoved the wires inside, the radio came to life. We shouted with excitement. As I pedaled the bicycle, I could hear the great Billy Kaunda playing his happy music on Radio Two, and that made Geoffrey start to dance." Keep pedaling," he said. " That's it, just keep pedaling." " Hey, I want to dance, too." " You'll have to wait your turn." Without realizing it, I'd just discovered the difference between alternating and direct current. Of course, I wouldn't know what this meant until much later.After a few minutes of pedaling this upside-down bike by hand, my arm grew tired and the radio slowly died. So I began thinking, " What can do the pedaling for us so Geoffrey and I can dance? "
2 " When I was little, I was out riding my brand-new blue bicycle when I decided to see how far I could keep going without looking back even once. I could feel with my back how my neighborhood was receding, further and further away... but I kept pedaling with all my might, my mind almost going blank. All I could hear was the sound of my own heart, thumping wildly in my ears. Even now, I remember it sometimes. What exactly was I trying to do that day? What was it that I wanted to prove?It's no good. My mind just keeps fogging over. I have this irritating sound stuck in my head. What is it? This sound... Ohh... I know what it is. This is... the sound of emptiness. "
― Chica Umino , Honey and Clover, Vol. 7
3 " Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air. Sometimes people stop loving you. And that's the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light. "
― Lauren Oliver , Vanishing Girls
4 " Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road. "
― Doug Cooper , Outside In
