pavement and beach(es)

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Believe it or not, me got "The Moon" card two days after another as 
daily instruction and that's exactly how I feel ... Anyway, just read a 
sentence in Against the Day which seems to be connected to the 
Situationist intro quote in Inherent Vice that found such brilliant 
interpretation in Millard's article:

"He had found in Pugnax a sympathetic soul, for, owing to often weeks of 
being cooped up in the gondola of the Inconvenience, Pugnax also dreamed 
of release, running in the early morning, into a brisk wind, leaving 
behind whatever humans had accompanied him, ALONG THE WILD BEACHES OF 
FLORIDA HARD AS PAVEMENT [emphasis mine.kfl], or the frozen rivers of 
Siberia where Samoyeds raced alongside in a spirit of friendly 
competition." (p. 255)

So we have beach(es) & pavement another time, but this here is 
different. The freedom desired is not imagined in figures of binary 
distinction (soft vs. hard), yet in in the superimposition of both 
terms, which
seems to indicate (cf. in the same sentence: "spirit of friendly 
competition") a dialectical transcendence of thinking in opposites. But 
maybe I'm exaggerating and it's just about that dogs can't run well on 
soft sand ...

Kai