To the Editor:
In the dusky early evening hours of Nov. 19, no fewer than four parallel universes collided on the corner of Pitt and Cameron in an astronomically rare incident, known informally as a “multi-modal mash-up.” Within the space of less than 2.14293 milliseconds, two quick moving pedestrians, rounding the identical corner, froze within nanometers of one another, while emitting audibly high squeaks.
This was swiftly enhanced by ped1@Pitt stepping out into the crosswalk, where a near collision of bodies followed … as a small, close in, hyper-speed, dark particle (nicknamed “the biker”) bore down. Simultaneously, in the same low-light intersection, two large, slow moving entities, propelled by four rapidly orbiting tubes, began to arc towards one another on an imminent smash path.
Lesson: Complete Streets are superb demonstrations of how extraordinary collisions of parallel universes might occur. Or, was this just a cocktail hour divertissement orchestrated by the famous ghosts of Old Town? You decide. I was there, or was I?
Kathryn Papp
Alexandria