I really like cycling at night. There is something about the coolness and the night
wind and the feeling of invisibility that always lifts me out of the humdrum. But occasionally I just worry I might career off the road...

Here is a quote on a previous thought (see chapter 1). It is about logic. Reading it reminds me that thoughts, thinking, imagination, reading and academia are not just for my head and its elaborate introspective projects, but are brought alive when they become spurs for action and conversation and sharing. It is helping to remember this now as I am feeling sorely tempted to run away into my own head world of imagination and ideas, which in fact, I have been reminded, doesn't exist in itself...

‘The final actuality is accomplished in face-to-face relationships by means of direct give and take. Logic in its fulfillment recurs to the primitive sense of the word: dialogue. Ideas which are not communicated, shared and reborn in expression are but [monological] soliloquy, ad soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.’

(Dewey – from his 'communicative theory of rationality and democratic social action.')