Kierkegaard on a bicycle
Some things got lost over time
a lot
was scarcely worth remembering
but I
remember as if only yesterday
although
it’s more than a week ago
Søren
Kierkegaard coming on a bicycle
wait a
moment it must be about
150
years ago
and I
hadn’t even been born then
but never
mind
he comes
bicycling down Hjortekær Road
and I’m
on my way up
so we
got off and had a little chat
now
someone’s sure to object
that the
bicycle hadn’t been invented then
but such
things don’t faze great minds
and he
could be a bit absent-minded at times
Slightly
out of breath he set to work illustrating
what he meant
by the term repetition
which he
spelt with a capital, i.e. Repetition:
The
constantly repeated use of the pedals
caused
the wheels to turn round
it was
so to speak repetition
that
made the wheels go round
and
increased the desire to see new places
or to
revive well-known places
But the
most brilliant thing about the bicycle was
that you
could do both at the same time
you sat
in the same place
and with
the aid of repetition could
move this
place with you
in that
way you could cycle from inner Copenhagen
all the
way out to Hjortekær and Dyrehaven
and
experience lots of marvellous places en route
without budging
from the place where you were
Yes and
that was long before there was TV
Then he nipped
off again on his bicycle
I’ve
never seen him since
and not
at all before
possibly
never
but I
remember that about repetition
and you
can say a lot about Kierkegaard
but the
man damned well knew what he was talking about
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