At least in Polish cities everyone rides electric scooters this days. The weather remains Italy, it’s warm and the technology became cheaper. Young and old ones have discovered the charm of speeding. This is already a cultural shift. Law experts, according to their baroque nature, begins to write the bloated volumes of lex scooter.
It’s time to embed this theme in the history of imagination. Where to start? From Ramesses II on a light chariot? From Hector and Achilles drifting to their deaths beneath the walls of Troy? Hollywood Ben Hur had a virtue so great that even Harley could hardly handle it. More like Eos in the pale dawn with a milk can bubbling across the still darkening horizon.
Among the vestiges of the twentieth century ragazzi futuristi reign supreme.
“At this point, the Spirit of Imagination as described by Intelligence appears. He is a tall and dry old man, with a mustache à la Habsburg, wearing a long fur frock coat and a bearskin hat; (…) One thing seems truly bizarre: his left leg moves on the roller skates while the right one rests directly on the ground.” (Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant)
There is also Bayamus, from a story by Stefan Themerson (1948). Bayamus in a bowler hat, with a third leg attached, skating through the streets of London, to the rhythm of semantic poetry.
Again, it is poetry and imagination must accelerate the unevenly working World again. To push it towards life.
