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>So there’s often a moment on the top of a col when someone goes to stand behind the van for a minute to themselves; or, alternatively, a spectacular implosion, like a supernova becoming a black hole. That happened to me once on the Col du Galibier. I hadn’t eaten, and had toiled on my own interminably from the heat below into an ominous cold and gathering storm. Then, just near the top, Pharaoh Sanders started playing in my earphones, encouraging me to let go, and the deconstruction began. My vision darkened around the edges, the world collapsed in on itself, folding like an empty cardboard box into two dimensions and, trapped between a rock and the infinite sky, I let it all out. The hail fell from clouds dark as bruises all around me while two beams of sunlight, God’s fingers, arrowed diagonally from somewhere high above the mountain into the valley below.
>So there’s often a moment on the top of a col when someone goes to stand behind the van for a minute to themselves; or, alternatively, a spectacular implosion, like a supernova becoming a black hole. That happened to me once on the Col du Galibier. I hadn’t eaten, and had toiled on my own interminably from the heat below into an ominous cold and gathering storm. Then, just near the top, Pharaoh Sanders started playing in my earphones, encouraging me to let go, and the deconstruction began. My vision darkened around the edges, the world collapsed in on itself, folding like an empty cardboard box into two dimensions and, trapped between a rock and the infinite sky, I let it all out. The hail fell from clouds dark as bruises all around me while two beams of sunlight, God’s fingers, arrowed diagonally from somewhere high above the mountain into the valley below.
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