“We are so well adapted to the things that we always have around us that we don’t see how they ‘actually’ are anymore, and thus we don’t even notice fundamental traits–for example, how unbelievably complicated it is to handle a motorcycle properly.”
“But there’s a trick to understanding it: we can take this familiar thing, and without changing it in the least, put it in an entirely new environment to make it seem completely ‘foreign,’ so it appears to us to be something new and previously unknown” (32).
Bernt Spiegel, The Upper Half of the Motorcycle:
on the unity of rider and machine (2010)
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