“It is the atomized space in which one does formerly private things, before others’ eyes, with the lonely solitude of a body acting as if it were still in private. One tries these contortions to undo and remake a private self… You are supposed to coexist but not look too closely, wipe down the metal of handlebars and the rubber of mats as if you has never left a trace.”
Mark Greif, in Against Exercise
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