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May 06, 2005

Crowd organism

"It is a notorious fact that the morality of society as a whole is in inverse ratio to its size. . . Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and the intelligence of an unweildly, stupid and violent animal." —C.G. Jung

May 05, 2005

Total Involvement

WAYNE_M'RIVER MED.jpg"Everytime you say aerial surfing, people connect it with re-entries, but I think tube riding has a lot more space, or free flight, than re-entries. To drop into the tube itself—especially if it's a really sucking backdoor—you can almost fly. You DO fly."

"Once you go into a backdoor, you've got to keep that pressure on your rail. The whole feeling is that you're going to leap out into space and be crushed. But you don't. You get sucked right through the vacuum."

"It's a very spaced, light feeling. . . not one of intense pressure but one of weightlessness."

—Wayne Lynch, Backdoor Surfer, March-April, 1976.