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After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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Wait. I thought I had learned that you weren’t supposed to gallop a horse on pavement, just dirt or grass. That’s some tough horse.
Now yer talkin’ ! Great kiddo. I’d have made her wear jeans and boots, but I’d have been wrong.
The rider’s right leg appears to be in some sort of harness, whazzit?
Magnificent horse!
That was more dangerous than the average person can imagine…
Only a damned fool with a death wish for horse and self would pull a stunt like that.
30 mph horseshoes on pavement
+
30 mph car following close by
=
darwin
Stunt. Yes. There is a strap hanging under the cinch strap. She has her right ankle in that strap to keep her head from getting banged on the pavement. Steel shoes on pavement at full run is very stupid.
ghost is right. Darwin award attempt for sure.
Glad she lived, maybe someday she’ll realize how close to death that stunt took her. Yes, she’s a good rider, but:
If her foot had slipped out of the harness-
If the horse had shied-
If her head hit the pavement-
If any one of a large number of things had happened,
She would be a vegetable or dead. Glad that’s not my daughter!
This should be set to music: “Nearer My God To Thee.”
Beautiful riding – insanely deadly, but beautiful. Anybody recognize the locale?
Sounds like Spanish speaking right at the beginning.
Korean?
I don’t care, – both of them thoroughbreds!
Long Cool Woman in Faded Black Jeans on Black Horse
Lyrics in *unknown language*
That was child’s play in Genghis Khan’s army.
Impressive!