In the long run

[Monte Davis]

Jessa Crispin, Monday at her Blog of a Booklsut:

"I never really understood marathon runners. All that chafing and pain 
and bleeding from places that should not be bleeding... A friend 
reported once she spent the last two miles afraid to look down because 
she was pretty sure that her kneecap had moved to the back of her knee. 
Nothing anybody has ever said about running a marathon makes me want to 
sign up.

"I also do not understand those who are going to read the latest Thomas 
Pynchon 
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159420120X?ie=UTF8&tag=artandlies-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=159420120X> 
just because... well, because it's there. And they're going to keep logs 
about the experience, as if it were an endurance test, although 
evidently it is. The Prospect 
<http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=8657> is the 
latest to join in the fun (just read the headline: "battling his way 
through" -- what is wrong with you people?). Although there is no 
chafing and inappropriate bleeding yet, I'm sure there will be by the end."

<sigh>

If anyone can identify the sinister agency forcing poor Jessa to run 
marathons *or* read AtD, I'll be the first to cry "stop!"

What is it that some people don't understand about "Different strokes 
for different folks"..?

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